· Private foundation
Vetter Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIT | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| OLPH SCHOOL | $6,200 |
| TX WOMEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| HOMEMADE HOPE | $5,000 |
| C KING CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $5,000 |
| SPCA | $5,000 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| BIG THOUGHT | $5,000 |
| MCMULLEN MUSEUMBOSTON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +105%
- BTBIG THOUGHT8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +33%
- PBPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC4× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DADEFTORNADO ASSISTANCE-DALLAS FOUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $8k
- HIHELFER INTERNATIONAL NONE PUBLICone grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Homemade Hope for Homeless Children ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds TIPITINAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vetter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vetter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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