· Private foundation
Vica Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $200,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $160,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA | $150,000 |
| HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER | $150,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $150,000 |
| COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LIBRARY OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| NPR | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $20,000 |
| NATL HISTORY DAY | $15,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +31%
The Fistula Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $305k · revenue +94%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- LOLIBRARY OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $75k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD-METRO WA DCone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Team Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEWISBORO LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds National History Day Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds LEWISBORO VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC QUEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vica Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vica Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National History Day Inc: 13% of income from government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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