California · Private foundation
Vesper Society
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.
- $34k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Vesper Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 14 | $24k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $24k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $26k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $133k | 74% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $35k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $72k | 74% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $20k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $19k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Feathers-Nafs | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program Community Foundation | $41,000 | 2 | 51% |
| Native Americans in Philanthropy | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| College of the Redwoods Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tariq Khamisa Foundation Inc Tkf | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Volunteers in Medicine - San Francisco | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ink People Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kee Cha-E-Nar Corporation | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Native American Health Center Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vesper Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 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: The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Impactassetsinc · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation
How this is measured
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About Vesper Society
- How much does Vesper Society give?
- Vesper Society reported 15 grants totaling $33,878 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vesper Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Vesper Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Two Feathers-Nafs ($100k), Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program Community Foundation ($41k), Native Americans in Philanthropy ($15k).
- Does Vesper Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vesper Society 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 Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Wellness Foundation, The California Endowment, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
- Where is Vesper Society based?
- Vesper Society is based in CA.
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