· Private foundation
Vernon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MARU-A-PULA INC | $50,000 |
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GIVECAMPUS | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| GERMANTOWN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $10,000 |
| MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD | $10,000 |
| GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $3,000 |
| MY PLACE TEEN CENTER | $3,000 |
| MAINE LOCKER PROJECT | $3,000 |
| MAINE NEEDS | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PYPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION8× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +63% · 30% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MARU A PULA SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +105% · 30% of their budget
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG6× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- AFAIR FORCE MILITARY ACADAMYone grant, 2018 · $35k
- TCTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MARU A PULA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TRAILS ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Horizon Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Lennox Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vernon Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.