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Vineyard Foundation at a glance

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Vineyard 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$84kPhilanthropy$69kReligion$54kFood & Nutrition$47kEducation$36kHousing & Shelter$20kYouth Development$15kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$18,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC$14,667
LEWIS P TABARRINI CHILDREN'S MUSIC$9,667
MERCY FLIGHT INC$9,667
KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC$9,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF$5,000
YOUTH ON RECORD$5,000
EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$5,000
GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC$3,000
DACHSHUND RESCUE SOUTH FLORIDA INC$3,000
CAFE OF LIFE INC$2,000
GALLATIN CARES$2,000
HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY$2,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FL$999
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GALLATIN CARES: $2k → 8%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $2k → 12%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 15 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$259k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+2%

Still filing today

73%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionAnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +9%
  • TK
    THE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +105%
  • HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • HB
    HILLTOP BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -9%
  • MW
    MOUNTAIN WAYS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -93%
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
Meals On Wheels of Boulder Inc

The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.

Food & Nutrition
2
Meals On Wheels of the Palm Beaches Inc

Meals on wheels of the palm beaches mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound seniors by delivering fresh food daily with compassion and love.

Food & Nutrition
3
South Fort Myers Food Pantry Coalition Inc

The mission of the south fort myers food pantry coalition is to feed the needy of the south fort myers area.

Food & Nutrition
4
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
5
Foothills Food Pantry

This organization providesfood to families in need of assistance.

Human Services
6
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
7
South County Food Pantry Inc

Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.

Food & Nutrition
8
Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry

The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.

Human Services
9
Food Bank of Greenwood County

The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.

Food & Nutrition
10
Faith Food Pantry

The mission of the food pantry is to help any resident who needs food assistance and to do so without judgement.faith does not discriminate by age, color, religious belief or gender.faith was founded on june 21, 1983 and was located in the…

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
12
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dachshund Rescue South Florida Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION: $64,000 · OtherTHE HEIGHTS FOUNDATIONFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF: $21,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OFHILLTOP BAPTIST CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherHILLTOP BAPTIST CHURCHMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,650 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCMERCY FLIGHT INC: $9,667 · OtherLEWIS P TABARRINI CHILDREN'S MUSIC: $9,667 · OtherTHE VINEYARD FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $8,000 · Other+22 more: $79,575 · Other+22 moreCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $72,792 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WA…THE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC: $31,000 · EducationTHE KEYST…HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $15,999 · Food & NutritionGLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCAFE OF LIFE INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC: $6,500 · AnimalsDACHSHUND RESCUE SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $4,000 · AnimalsSOUTH WEST FLORIDA HORSE RESCUE INC: $500 · AnimalsMOUNTAIN WAYS INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$229,559Environment$72,792Education$31,000Food & Nutrition$21,999Housing & Shelter$11,000Animals$11,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $72,792 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $15,999 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,650 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN WAYS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL PALM SAILING CLUB INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLove Your Neighbor of West Michigan: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDACHSHUND RESCUE SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSoar Detroit: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGALLATIN CARES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH WEST FLORIDA HORSE RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KEYSTONE SCIENCE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN WAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL PALM SAILING CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Love Your Neighbor of West Michigan ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ON RECORD ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds DACHSHUND RESCUE SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Soar Detroit ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds GALLATIN CARES ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH WEST FLORIDA HORSE RESCUE 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.

Southwest Florida Com…Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationBaird Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…
Southwest Florida Community Foundation IncFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving 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 Vineyard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vineyard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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