· Private foundation
Vf Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $306k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEVATE ETHIOPIA | $37,500 |
| EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION | $35,000 |
| HOPE INC | $25,000 |
| HYPE - HOPE FOR YOUTH | $25,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES | $20,000 |
| SELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| EPIC GIRL | $15,000 |
| JUSTICE AND HOPE USA NFP | $12,500 |
| HOPE FOR THE FATHERLESS | $12,500 |
| STEPS HOME | $12,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HAVEN | $11,000 |
| PINK GIRL INC | $10,000 |
| URBAN PROMISE NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| EVERY MOTHER'S ADVOCATE | $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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- ECEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +26%
- EEELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +326% · 36% of their budget
- SFSELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT7× · 2018–2024 · $123k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ABAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
ISAIAH 117 HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%- GSGIRLS SHINE ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
To inspire, educate and empower the Ethiopian professional community to make a positive impact in the world.
Our mission is to improve the daily lives of the less fortunate and disadvantaged children and their families in Ethiopia by overcoming three critical barriers in the seemingly unbreakable poverty cycle; POOR OR NO EDUCATION, POOR HOUSING,…
To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.
The organization is dedicated to empowering orphaned and vulnerable children and families in Ethiopia. In total, Addis Jemari serves almost 200 people in Ethiopia
Our mission is to partner with god, individuals and the local church in ministering with the poor, orphans and vulnerable children (and their families) of ethiopia using compassionate, holistic practices that promote sustainability,…
Provide food, education and other aid to school children in ethiopia.
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Hekima place is a safe, loving and faith-based home for orphaned vulnerable girls in kenya. we support excellence in education and empowerment for their futures by providing them with the love, support and education they need to grow into…
Studio samuel creates pathways for girls to reach their potential through education and job skills. our board is financially committeed to covering us operations, ensuring donor gifts are applied directly to our programs in ethiopia.
Charity to help poor in Ethiopia
The mission of aerie africa is to provide a nurturing family, holistic care, and an education to orphaned and vulnerable youth who have no other viable options for care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Ethiopia Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. 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 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 41 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 EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds SELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds EPIC GIRL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE FATHERLESS ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER'S ADVOCATE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NO ORDINARY LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE CARE OF HOME ↗
- Who funds PINK GIRL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHAMIDA ETHIOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE STARFISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Donorsee Foundation FKA Howms INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE2RWANDA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION 10 10 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEN THE SAINTS ↗
- Who funds HALI Access Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THREESIXTY ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Vf Foundation 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.