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Vetter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$154k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Vetter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$154k18%
FY202317$110k12%
FY202216$102k25%
FY202114$81k14%
FY202019$139k11%
FY201924$147k21%
FY201825$143k20%
FY201722$127kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$185kEducation$165kHuman Services$117kReligion$73kArts & Culture$67kHealth$30kCrime & Legal$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
AR
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Texas Food Bank$151,00080%
St Mark's School of Texas$60,00080%
Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc$38,0004n/a
Cristo Rey$37,7004n/a
Big Thought$36,00080%
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$35,00040%
The Bridge$30,00041%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$28,75080%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00010%
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas$23,00040%
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All grantees of Vetter Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Texas Food Bank$151,00080%
St Mark's School of Texas$60,00080%
Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc$38,0004n/a
Cristo Rey$37,7004n/a
Big Thought$36,00080%
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$35,00040%
The Bridge$30,00041%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$28,75080%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00010%
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas$23,00040%
Dallas Museum of Art$20,00080%
National Park Foundation$17,00050%
Homemade Hope for Homeless Children$17,00046%
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc$17,00080%
Tipitinas Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($459k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vetter Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $151,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mark's School of Texas: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBig Thought: $36,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPuppies Behind Bars Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bridge: $30,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $28,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of Texas: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHomemade Hope for Homeless Children: $17,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetNorth Texas Public Broadcasting Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Celanese FoundationTX13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Celanese Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Vetter Foundation

How much does Vetter Foundation give?
Vetter Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $153,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Vetter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (18%), Education (16%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Vetter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Texas Food Bank ($151k), St Mark's School of Texas ($60k), Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc ($38k).
Does Vetter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vetter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vetter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Celanese Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Vetter Foundation based?
Vetter Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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