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Vine and Branches Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Vine and Branches Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.1M
Granted FY2023
50
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Religion$6.3MHuman Services$2.8MEducation$2.4MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$941kHousing & Shelter$812kCivil Rights$255kInternational$201kOther$0
02FY2023 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k17 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$30,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$1,784,403
THE LEGACY FOUNDATION AT SHELL POINT INC$250,000
ALPHA USA$250,000
CITY ON A HILL INC$175,000
THE LEGACY FOUNDATION AT SHELL POINT INC$170,000
NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC$160,000
STRONGER FAMILIES$100,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES$100,000
COMMUNIO FOUNDATION$100,000
HUMAN COALITION$100,000
SOUL SHEPHERDING$75,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC$70,000
RESONATE CHURCH$60,000
MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES$60,000
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC$60,000
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 (FY20–23, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AVAIL NYC: $25k → 17%HUMAN COALITION: $300k → 5%HIDEAWAY FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%BETTER TOGETHER: $250k → 10%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $4k → 12%MADE TO FLOURISH INC: $200k → 5%CHOSEN INC: $3k → 5%AVAIL NYC: $20k → 17%HUMAN COALITION: $300k → 5%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $50k → 11%BETTER TOGETHER: $250k → 10%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $4k → 12%MADE TO FLOURISH INC: $50k → 5%HUMAN COALITION: $175k → 5%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $40k → 11%BETTER TOGETHER: $125k → 10%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $4k → 12%MADE TO FLOURISH INC: $5k → 5%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $150k → 6%HUMAN COALITION: $175k → 5%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $33k → 11%BETTER TOGETHER: $125k → 10%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $150k → 6%HUMAN COALITION: $100k → 5%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $13k → 11%BETTER TOGETHER: $50k → 10%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $150k → 6%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $13k → 11%BETTER TOGETHER: $10k → 10%BUILDING INTIMATE MARRIAGES INC: $70k → 9%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $5k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $200k → 10%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $5k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $160k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $160k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $150k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $5k → 10%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
KS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 50 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
15

Total granted

$13M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-10%

Still filing today

70%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HC
    HUMAN COALITION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +86%
  • AU
    Alpha USA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $890k · revenue +145%
  • GC
    Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SG
    SLINGSHOT GROUP INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • BI
    BUILDING INTIMATE MARRIAGES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -26%
  • HP
    Houston Pregnancy Help Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +45%
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Life Network

Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…

Health
3
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
4
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

—
6
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
7
Pregnancy Care Center

The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.

—
8
Passionlife Ministries Inc

Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.

Religion
9
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
10
Emerge Global Inc

Biblical support of single moms. To encourage and support single moms to thrive and not just survive.

Human Services
11
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
12
Human Life Services Inc

Human Life Services is a life affirming Christ-centered pregnancy care organization serving York through medical services, peer counseling, education and community referrals.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Better Together. 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

54 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. 54 of the 77 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $1,784,403 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC: $585,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INCMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES: $565,000 · OtherMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIESRESONATE CHURCH NETWORK: $560,000 · OtherRESONATE CHURCH NETWORKSTRONGER FAMILIES: $550,000 · OtherSTRONGER FAMILIESCare Net: $255,000 · Other+36 more: $930,150 · Other+36 moreHUMAN COALITION: $1,050,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN COALITIONBETTER TOGETHER: $810,000 · Human ServicesBETTER TOGETHERNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $675,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FL…COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INCMADE TO FLOURISH INC: $255,000 · Human ServicesMADE TO FLOURISH INCEmbrace Grace Inc: $157,500 · Human Services+6 more: $200,000 · Human Services+6 moreAlpha USA: $890,000 · ReligionAlpha USACITY ON A HILL INC: $650,000 · ReligionCITY ON A HILL INCSoul Shepherding: $495,000 · ReligionSoul ShepherdingLive the Life Ministries Inc: $200,000 · ReligionLive the Life Minis…PROGRACE INTERNATIONAL: $194,687 · ReligionPROGRACE INTERNATIO…CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE INC: $90,000 · Religion+3 more: $15,500 · ReligionGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $800,000 · EducationGeorgia Cente…THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $405,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE…FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $265,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLO…The New York City Leadership Center Inc: $250,000 · EducationThe New York …+1 more: $7,500 · EducationSave the Storks: $417,684 · HealthLife Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc: $313,500 · HealthCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $64,500 · HealthThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc: $510,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $23,450 · PhilanthropyLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $265,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $135,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,229,553Human Services$3,697,500Religion$2,535,187Education$1,727,500Health$795,684Philanthropy$533,450Youth Development$402,000

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 budgetHUMAN COALITION: $1,050,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetAlpha USA: $890,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $800,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $675,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCITY ON A HILL INC: $650,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES: $565,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSTRONGER FAMILIES: $550,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc: $510,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetSoul Shepherding: $495,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetSave the Storks: $417,684 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $405,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLife Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc: $313,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $265,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $265,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCare Net: $255,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMADE TO FLOURISH INC: $255,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetThe New York City Leadership Center Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLive the Life Ministries Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPROGRACE INTERNATIONAL: $194,687 over 4y, 13% of budgetEmbrace Grace Inc: $157,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGBNPC Inc: $107,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBUILDING INTIMATE MARRIAGES INC: $70,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $64,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHouston Pregnancy Help Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAVAIL NYC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTeen Challenge of Wisconsin Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHIDEAWAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHUSTLE USA: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCulinary Angels: $19,950 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUNT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $13,450 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Trust Partners: $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAND OF HELP INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne For Israel: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetInner Beauty Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION -- WISCONSIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 HUMAN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Alpha USA ↗
  • Who funds BETTER TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STRONGER FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc ↗
  • Who funds Soul Shepherding ↗
  • Who funds Save the Storks ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Care Net ↗
  • Who funds MADE TO FLOURISH INC ↗
  • Who funds The New York City Leadership Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Live the Life Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROGRACE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds GBNPC Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING INTIMATE MARRIAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Pregnancy Help Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds AVAIL NYC ↗

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.

Servant FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Ed and Josie Toogood …Natl Christian Charit…The Signatry Charitab…Christian Community F…Timothy and Barbara M…Jerome J and Dorothy …STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Baird Foundation IncYouth Foundation Inc
Servant FoundationKS25.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ed and Josie Toogood Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth 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 Vine and Branches Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vine and Branches Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Live the Life Ministries Inc: 66% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 77 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home