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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.

$715k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$3.5MHealth$105kEducation$70kFood & Nutrition$50kHousing & Shelter$48kEnvironment$20kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $328,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $715,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $387,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
$12,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUTRIBLE INC (THRIVELINK)$51,500
ARBOL COMMUNITY INC$51,500
FOUNDERS FORGE$12,500
BUILT2LAST INNOVATIONS LAB INC$12,500
CINEMATICA LABS INC$12,500
ZANE ACCESS CO$12,500
REMERGE INC$12,500
IGNITE ALABAMA$12,500
BLACKAT LLC$12,500
ECHO SYSTEM$12,500
THE JWC FOUNDATION$12,500
URBAN IMPACT INC$12,500
TUNDA LLC$10,000
SANARAI INC$10,000
EFFECTIVE TO GREAT EDUCATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRUST INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$175k · 65% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EARLY-STAGE SOCIAL VENTURE COMMITTED TO PROMOTING EQUITY AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING.

South America$95k · 35% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EARLY-STAGE SOCIAL VENTURE COMMITTED TO PROMOTING EQUITY AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$750k · 12 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
90

Total granted

$750k
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+23%

Still filing today

58%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationEmploymentPublic BenefitFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    Maryland Institute
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +279%
  • W
    WEPOWER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • ZU
    Zebras Unite
    one grant, 2021 · $465k · revenue -100%
  • LH
    LUCIA HEALTH GUIDELINES LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • OH
    OMAIVEN HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub

Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.

Philanthropy
2
Transparent Collective Inc

Increasing the number of underrepresented founders raising early stage funding

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3
The Verge Entrepreneurship Hub Foundation
Community Improvement
4
Webb Squared

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.

Community Improvement
5
Responsible Innovation Labs Inc

Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.

Science & Tech
6
Nextgen Entrepreneurship Network
Education
7
True Foundry Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
8
Wayne Brown Institute

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…

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9
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
10
Access Mode

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.

Education
11
Shebuilds Foundation

To accelerate social, economic, and environmental progress globally by equipping entrepreneurs, innovators, and change makers with the tools to scale their impact

Community Improvement
12
Collaboration for Good

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Work Network; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
13/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Atlas Service Corps Inc: $200,000 · OtherAtlas Service Corps IncLUCIA HEALTH GUIDELINES LLC: $100,000 · OtherOMAIVEN HEALTH INC: $100,000 · Other+98 more: $2,370,500 · Other+98 moreZebras Unite: $464,889 · Public BenefitZebras UniteCONCOURSE GROUP INC METABRONX: $60,000 · Community ImprovementCONCOURSE…WEPOWER: $40,000 · Community ImprovementWEPOWERBEAUTIFUL VENTURES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBEAUTIFUL…CHANGE LABS: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCHANGE LA…DIVINC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementDIVINCACCELERATE 500 INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementACCELERAT…NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXIC…The JWC FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementIGNITE ALABAMA: $12,500 · Community ImprovementBUILT2LAST INNOVATIONS LAB INC: $12,500 · Community Improvement+2 more: $20,000 · Community Improvement+2 moreMaryland Institute: $50,000 · EducationImpact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures: $30,000 · EducationBLACK AND BROWN FOUNDERS INC: $30,000 · EducationPeralta Colleges Foundation: $20,000 · EducationFoundersForge: $12,500 · EducationZane Access Co: $12,500 · EducationGRID110 INC: $50,000 · EmploymentEcho System: $12,500 · EmploymentFOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN IMPACT INC: $12,500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,770,500Public Benefit$464,889Community Improvement$307,500Education$155,000Employment$62,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Philanthropy$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZebras Unite: $464,889 over 1y, 17% of budgetAtlas Service Corps Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCONCOURSE GROUP INC METABRONX: $60,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMaryland Institute: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRID110 INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGOOD WORK NETWORK: $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetREPRESENTED FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWEPOWER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetImpact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL VENTURES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetCHANGE LABS: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDIVINC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetACCELERATE 500 INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK AND BROWN FOUNDERS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPeralta Colleges Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe JWC FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetURBAN IMPACT INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIGNITE ALABAMA: $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREMERGE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoundersForge: $12,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetEcho System: $12,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetZane Access Co: $12,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoodie Nation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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 Zebras Unite ↗
  • Who funds Atlas Service Corps Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONCOURSE GROUP INC METABRONX ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
  • Who funds GRID110 INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD WORK NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FOOD SYSTEM 6 ACCELERATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRESENTED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEPOWER ↗
  • Who funds Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTIFUL VENTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE LABS ↗
  • Who funds DIVINC ↗

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.

P33Echoing Green IncEwing Marion Kauffman…Truist Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …WK Kellogg FoundationSurdna Foundation IncWells Fargo FoundationAARPAmerican Heart Associ…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…
P33IL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vilcap Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vilcap Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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