· Private foundation
Vines and Forest 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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $22,500 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $10,000 |
| KHAN ACADEMY INC | $10,000 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY INC | $2,365 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ORG | $2,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| KQED INC | $500 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Vines and Forest Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +1%- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +319%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +17%
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.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vines and Forest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vines and Forest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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