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Vesper Society

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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$116kPhilanthropy$64kHealth$47kEmployment$42kYouth Development$23kEducation$22kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST 5 HUMBOLDT$10,000
MARIN CITY HEALTH$5,000
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$2,000
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$2,000
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$2,000
UNTHINKABLE$1,000
SUDANESE AMERICAN PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION$1,000
OPERATION ACCESS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ASIAN HEALTH SERVICE$363
HEALTHRIGHT 360$183
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FREEDOM CENTER: $100 → 7%ON THE MOVE: $1k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%KEE CHA-E-NAR CORP: $3k → 17%KEE CHAR E NAR CORPORATION: $3k → 17%SISTERSONG INC: $1k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1k → 9%THE INN BETWEEN: $1k → 8%FRESNO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION: $1k → 19%TWO FEATHERS NATIVE AMERCAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 18%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $1k → 16%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $1k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $1k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
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CA
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$86k · 15 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
87

Total granted

$86k
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+13%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • IV
    IMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $41k · revenue ×93 · 51% of their budget
  • AS
    Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition
    4× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +25%
  • TK
    TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF
    6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TF
    TWO FEATHERS-NAFSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +225%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health

The mission of ccuih is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of american indians living in urban communities in…

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2
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
3
Fresno American Indian Health Project

FAIHP promotes a culture of wellness and enhances the quality of life for All Tribal Nations and Communities.

Health
4
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Inc

Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.

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5
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
6
Inland Behavioral & Health Services Inc

IBHS is dedicated to helping the community achieve and maintain general good health, education and welfare through commitment in providing excellent service in the areas of physical health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health…

Health
7
North County Health Project Inc

TrueCare's mission is to improve the health status of our diverse communities by providing quality health care that is comprehensive, affordable and culturally sensitive. In 2024, TrueCare provided 367,941 visits, serving 68,023 patients.

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8
California Black Health Network

The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…

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9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Equity Health

Our mission is to ensure health care access to quality comprehensive health care services for persons who are medically needy or medically under-served and have traditionally experienced difficulty in getting care from traditional sources.

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11
San Diego American Indian Health Center

The Mission of San Diego American Indian Health Center is to promote excellence in health care with respect to custom and tradition. Our goal is to reduce the significant health disparities San Diego's Urban American Indian and…

Health
12
Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley

To help ensure the survival and healing of american indians and alaskan natives and the greater community by providing high quality, comprehensive health care and cultural services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec and the most unlike its peers is Washington Interfaith Network. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%79%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/74
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,904

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
48/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TWO FEATHERS-NAFS — $100,000 · Human ServicesTWO FEATHERS-NAFSKEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION — $5,000 · Human Services+11 more — $11,100 · Human Services+11 moreIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST 5 HUMBOLDT — $10,000 · OtherFIRST 5 HUMBOLDTMARIN CITY HEALTH — $5,000 · Other+68 more — $85,608 · Other+68 moreHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $49,200 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA FO…TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $7,000 · PhilanthropyTARIQ KHAMISA FO…+2 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyIMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $41,000 · EducationIMPERIAL VALLEY …COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE R…All Five — $3,000 · EducationAll Five+1 more — $1,000 · EducationAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $8,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO — $5,000 · HealthCalifornia School-Based Health Alliance — $2,500 · HealthCONNECTING TO CARE — $2,000 · HealthASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $1,538 · HealthACTION FOR HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS — $1,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $1,000 · HealthFriendship House Association of American Indians Inc — $1,000 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH TEAM INC — $1,000 · HealthNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services — $1,000 · HealthAsian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc — $1,000 · HealthBLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC — $1,000 · HealthCultiva La Salud — $1,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $1,000 · HealthNative Americans in Philanthropy — $10,000 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote — $2,500 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Civil RightsELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $1,000 · Civil RightsYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlliance in Mentorship — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING AND BEYOND — $1,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$116,100Other$112,608Philanthropy$58,200Education$55,000Health$28,038Civil Rights$14,500Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTWO FEATHERS-NAFS — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $49,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNative Americans in Philanthropy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $7,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Five — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNative American Health Center Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia School-Based Health Alliance — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCO CLUB — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTING TO CARE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance in Mentorship — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $1,893 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $1,538 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING AND BEYOND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSIGHT CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave California Salmon — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship House Association of American Indians Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Youth Service Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetON THE MOVE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH TEAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERSONG INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMORG — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSudanese American Physicians Assn — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Leflore County Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The California Wellne…The California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Sierra Health Foundat…ImpactassetsincThe James Irvine Foun…Tides FoundationFirst Nations Develop…Silicon Valley Commun…McNabb Foundation
The California Wellness FoundationCA38.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vesper Society 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vesper Society?

Find your warmest path to Vesper Society 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines