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Vhf Foundation Inc

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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

International$278kFood & Nutrition$149kHuman Services$148kHealth$27kEducation$25kPhilanthropy$20kScience & Tech$20kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Israel Fund$25,000
Healthy Waltham$10,000
Fresh Start Furniture Bank$10,000
The Food Drivve$10,000
Welcome Home$10,000
Beantown Baby Diaper Bank$10,000
Welcoming Alliance$10,000
The Good People Fund$10,000
Digger Foods$10,000
Newton Food Pantry$7,500
Needham Community Council$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Mitzvah Circle: $10k → 7%WELCOMING ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE MINI: $10k → 11%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $10k → 7%Familia Triunfadoras: $10k → 21%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $10k → 7%Familia Triunfadoras: $5k → 21%True Alliance Center: $5k → 16%Mitzvah Cicle Foundation: $10k → 7%Welcome Home: $5k → 8%Welcome Home: $10k → 8%Beantown Baby Diaper Bank: $10k → 8%Beantown Baby Diaper Bank: $3k → 8%Beantown Baby Diaper Bank: $2k → 8%Fresh Start Furniture Bank: $10k → 8%Fresh Start Furniture Bank: $10k → 8%Fresh Start Furniture Bank: $10k → 8%Fresh Start Furniture Bank: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NH
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$346k · 15 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +209% since the first grant, against +98% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$346k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+209%
+98%

Still filing today

87%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • FS
    FRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +26%
  • MC
    MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +408%
  • THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • RT
    Rachel's Table
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WA
    WELCOMING ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE MINISTRY WARMINCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +211%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Food Drive Inc

The corporation was organized in melrose, massachusetts to promote food access, food justice, and climate action. we partner with commercial and community sources to rescue wholesome food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it…

Food & Nutrition
2
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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3
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
4
Wellfleet Food Pantry

To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.

Education
5
Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust

To provide food assistance to families in Dedham, MA.

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6
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
7
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc

To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.

Human Services
8
Tewksbury Community Pantry Inc

The heart of the tewksbury community pantry's mission lies in our commitment to assist residents of tewksbury facing hardships. we extend beyond mere food distribution, offering guidance towards additional resources, ensuring our clients…

Human Services
9
The Peoples Pantry

Our mission is to respectfully serve our neighbors experiencing food insecurity by distributing healthy food, locally sourced whenever feasible.

Food & Nutrition
10
Tifereth Raphael Inc

Tifereth raphael, located in the heart of brighton, ma, is a non-profit organization that sources kosher food and distributes it in a dignified way according to the needs of the community, at no cost to the recipients.

Religion
11
Billerica Community Pantry Inc

Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
12
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Area Gleaners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Source Seed Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%22%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,536

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW ISRAEL FUND — $180,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC — $32,500 · InternationalTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INCThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 · InternationalFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START FURNITURE …MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDAT…WELCOME HOME INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesWELCOME HOME INCBEANTOWN BABY DIAPER BANK — $15,000 · Human ServicesBEANTOWN BABY DIAPER B…FAMILIAS TRIUNFADORAS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIAS TRIUNFADORAS …WELCOMING ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE MINISTRY WARMINC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWELCOMING ALLIANCE FOR…TRUE ALLIANCE CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUDBURY VALLEY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · OtherSUDBURY VALLEY SCHOOL …WINDBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTER — $20,000 · OtherWINDBRIDGE RESEARCH CE…The Food Drivve — $17,000 · OtherThe Food DrivveRachel's Table — $10,000 · OtherRachel's TableWelcoming Alliance — $10,000 · OtherWelcoming AllianceCENTRE STREET MINYAN INC — $9,895 · OtherCENTRE STREET MINYAN I…NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $7,500 · OtherNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUN…CREW Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington — $5,000 · OtherRose's Bounty Food Pantry — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · OtherEpiscopal City Mission — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF EL PASO PASTORAL CENTER — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $2,500 · OtherFOOD LINK INC — $29,800 · Food & NutritionFOOD LINK INCBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $29,500 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEAN…DIGGER FOODS INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionDIGGER FOODS INCNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC — $12,500 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD PANTR…NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN SOURCE SEED INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAE…TIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyREFUGEE H…Healthy Waltham Inc — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $5,000 · Education
International$222,500Human Services$140,000Other$136,895Food & Nutrition$106,800Philanthropy$55,000Health$25,000Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC — $40,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD LINK INC — $29,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $29,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDIGGER FOODS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWELCOME HOME INC — $15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBEANTOWN BABY DIAPER BANK — $15,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELCOMING ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE MINISTRY WARMINC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUE ALLIANCE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Cambridge Savings Cha…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncThree Squares New Eng…Community Foundation …Agnes M Lindsay TrustEversource Energy Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Wintman Family Charit…Boston Area Gleaners …
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Three Squares New England Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Wintman Family Charitable Trust A · Boston Area Gleaners 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 Vhf Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Digger Foods Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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By state
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