· Private foundation
Vesta Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENEW THEATERS DEEP FOCUS PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID | $50,000 |
| ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE PHILADELPHIE UNDERWRITING SALARY OF THE DIRECTOR OF E | $30,000 |
| AMBLER THEATER INC FILM NOW AND 35MM FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ENDOWMENT AT MAJESTIC THEATER | $25,000 |
| POWER FORWARD FOUNDATION POWER FORWARD STARTUP | $15,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA UNRESTRICTED | $14,000 |
| EUSEBEIA RELATIONSHIP RE DO | $12,500 |
| POWER FORWARD FOUNDATION POWER FORWARD FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB & CO INC CAMP WAZIYATAH CAMPER SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| KINDLE HILL FOUNDATION CHARITY SALARY FOR PART-TIME GRANTWRITERADMINISTRA | $10,000 |
| RENEW THEATERS GENERAL OPERATIONS 2500 FOR EACH OF FOUR RENEW-OPERATED TH | $10,000 |
| 319 MAIN LINE CENTER INC UNRESTRICTED GRANT | $10,000 |
| LENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION SUICIDE PREVENTION CONFERENCE FOR COMMUNITY EDUCAT | $10,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY SAVING LIVES AND KEEPING FAMILIES WHOLE | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Vesta Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 29 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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
- GCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $327k · revenue +18%
- AFALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE PHILADELPHIE4× · 2020–2023 · $215k · revenue +53%
- TPTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN4× · 2020–2023 · $184k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TCTJU CORPORATE ACCOUNTone grant, 2023 · $80k
- AEALBERT EINTEIN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- GFGWNEDD FRIENDS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Tenth life provides veterinary care, foster homes, and adoptive placement to stray cats and kittens, prioritizing those with special needs. the organization works to end unnecessary euthanasia and cat homelessness through educational…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To improve the lives of pets and people in the community; to provide and promote education concerning the proper care of animals; to provide medical services, socialization, and enrichment to animals; (see schedule o for continuation)to…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Moreland Youth and Drug Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Belgian Sheepdog Rescue Trust. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 86 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 HEALTHLINK DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RENEW THEATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE PHILADELPHIE ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds AMBLER THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds THE MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER MORELAND YOUTH AND DRUG COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIWAY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COLON CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
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: 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
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 Vesta Fund 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.