· Private foundation
Vinton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Vinton Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Vinton Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $165k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $26,500 |
| OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| MUSTIQUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YELLOW RIBBON FUND | $15,000 |
| LONGWOOD GARDENS | $15,000 |
| MERCERSURG ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| JFK CENTER | $15,000 |
| OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| RADNOR HOUNDS FUND | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE POLICE CHIEFS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS | $2,500 |
| DELAWARE WILDLANDS | $2,000 |
| STROUD WATER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DELAWARE ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| HERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DADELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +91%
- TMThe Mustique Charitable Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +41%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +144%
Funded once
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +40%- MCMendocino Coast Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue -1%
- TPTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
How this is measured
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.
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 DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Mustique Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Coast Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc ↗
- Who funds THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FORT MILES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION 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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Ederic Foundation Inc · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · The Struthers Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vinton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vinton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
- Fort Miles Historical Association Inc: 66% of income from government
- Limen House Inc: 38% of income from government
- Delaware College of Art and Design: 32% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc: 15% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc: 13% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Historical Society: 10% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company: 8% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: 7% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc: 5% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc: 4% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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