Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Vesta Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $364k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Vesta Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $364k | 91% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $710k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $670k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $670k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $640k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthlink Dental Clinic Inc | $367,168 | 4 | 46% |
| Gettysburg College | $326,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Renew Theaters Inc | $306,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Alliance Francaise de Philadelphie | $215,000 | 4 | 14% |
| The Public School of Germantown | $184,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ambler Theater Inc | $145,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Albert Einstein Healthcare Network | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Meadowbrook School | $96,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Maternity Care Coalition | $72,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($683k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vesta Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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 Philadelphia Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The William Penn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Windmill Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Cigna Group Foundation · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · Genuardi Family Foundation · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc
How this is measured
About Vesta Fund
- How much does Vesta Fund give?
- Vesta Fund reported 32 grants totaling $363,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Vesta Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (28%), Health (23%).
- Who are Vesta Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Healthlink Dental Clinic Inc ($367k), Gettysburg College ($327k), Renew Theaters Inc ($306k).
- Does Vesta Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vesta Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vesta Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable, The William Penn Foundation.
- Where is Vesta Fund based?
- Vesta Fund is based in PA.
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