Ohio · Private foundation
Vesper Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $165k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $165,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $165,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Vesper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $165k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $128k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $178k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $240k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $640k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wetlands Foundation | $570,000 | 5 | 100% |
| Tabor Academy | $210,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rehearsal for Life Inc | $162,500 | 2 | 8% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Park School Corporation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Advent School Corporation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Independence Center | $31,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vesper Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Vesper Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Vesper Foundation
- How much does Vesper Foundation give?
- Vesper Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Vesper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (46%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Vesper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wetlands Foundation ($570k), Tabor Academy ($210k), Rehearsal for Life Inc ($163k).
- Does Vesper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vesper Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vesper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is Vesper Foundation based?
- Vesper Foundation is based in OH.
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