· Public charity
Vilcap Inc
Our mission is to unlock early-stage social and financial capital for entrepreneurs building emergent solutions for environmental, social, and economic challenges around the world.
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.
The 22 grants below total $328,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $715,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $387,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k20 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARBOL COMMUNITY INC | $51,500 |
| NUTRIBLE INC (THRIVELINK) | $51,500 |
| THE JWC FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| BUILT2LAST INNOVATIONS LAB INC | $12,500 |
| REMERGE INC | $12,500 |
| URBAN IMPACT INC | $12,500 |
| FOUNDERS FORGE | $12,500 |
| BLACKAT LLC | $12,500 |
| ECHO SYSTEM | $12,500 |
| CINEMATICA LABS INC | $12,500 |
| IGNITE ALABAMA | $12,500 |
| ZANE ACCESS CO | $12,500 |
| LULO VENTURES INC | $10,000 |
| EFFECTIVE TO GREAT EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| NURTURETALK INC | $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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $270k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EARLY-STAGE SOCIAL VENTURE COMMITTED TO PROMOTING EQUITY AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING.
Stated purpose: FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EARLY-STAGE SOCIAL VENTURE COMMITTED TO PROMOTING EQUITY AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 22 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k 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
- MIMaryland Institute2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +28%
- FSFOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +279%
- WWEPOWER2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- ZUZebras Uniteone grant, 2021 · $465k · revenue -100%
- OHOMAIVEN HEALTH INCone grant, 2021 · $100k
- LHLUCIA HEALTH GUIDELINES LLCone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.
Increasing the number of underrepresented founders raising early stage funding
To redress the racial wealth gap and build generational wealth by providing incubator and accelerator services to black and brown entrepreneurs in rural North Carolina.
Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.
True Foundry helps underrepresented entrepreneurs build impactful businesses through mentorship, business coaching and consulting, bridge loans, investor readiness, business training/tools, networking events, startup strategy advising,…
The organization mentors nurtures and educates first-time entrepreneurs by teaching financial literacy business practices job-seeking skills and guides entrepreneurs on how to plan build and launch their own startups enterprises. The…
Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.
Advancing equity in tech start-ups. Mentorship is provided with non-dillutive grants. Attendees are exposed to subject matter experts and permanent access to a community of BIPOC leaders.
To accelerate social, economic, and environmental progress globally by equipping entrepreneurs, innovators, and change makers with the tools to scale their impact
Collaboration for Good is a capacity-building organization that focuses on accelerating economic equity. We believe the road to building a just and equal society lies in normalizing and stabilizing economic equity. Decent work, economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Work Network and the most unlike its peers is FoundersForge. 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 8 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 124 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.
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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: P33 · Echoing Green Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · WK Kellogg Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · AARP · American Heart Association Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 Vilcap 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 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.