· Public charity
Vesta Inc
To empower people to achieve self-determination.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMBC AT THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE | $40,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 13% of Vesta Inc’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, 92% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 78% — 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.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- AWA WIDER CIRCLE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue -15%
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC2× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue -25%
- CGCASAPRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- COCOMMUNITY OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +106%
- MFMANNA FOOD CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -5%
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.
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
The community action council of howard county (cac) seeks to diminish poverty and enable self-sufficiency for all howard county individuals, families, and children in need through housing assistance, food assistance, energy assistance,…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Manna on main street is committed to ending hunger in the north penn region by providing food, fulfilling social service and education needs, and conducting community outreach. through a food pantry and soup kitchen, emergency financial…
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.
The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…
The mission of the community resource center (crc) is to serve all individuals and families by connecting them to resources that improve their lives. the crc is a community based human services organization that was formed in 1987 when a…
To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is River Jordan Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CASAPRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds River Jordan Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SOWING EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vesta Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Casaprince George's County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sowing Empowerment and Economic Development Inc — 9% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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