New York · Private foundation
Vital Projects Fund Inc
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.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $53,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 114 to 134
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 30
- Total assets, FY2025
- $384M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Vital Projects Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 90 | $13M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 114 | $11M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 128 | $13M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 115 | $12M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 134 | $13M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Funds Inc | $4,750,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chef Ann Foundation | $2,000,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Louisiana Parole Project Inc | $1,905,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Texas Defender Service | $1,575,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Civil Rights Corps | $1,410,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Yale University | $1,271,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Duke University | $1,088,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | $1,046,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $950,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $938,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 192 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vital Projects Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 179 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Proteus Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Just Trust for Education · The Tow Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Fund for Nonviolence · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Vital Projects Fund Inc
- How much does Vital Projects Fund Inc give?
- Vital Projects Fund Inc reported 94 grants totaling $15,638,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 114 and 134 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Vital Projects Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (17%), Crime & Legal (13%), Education (8%).
- Who are Vital Projects Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Community Funds Inc ($4.8M), Chef Ann Foundation ($2.0M), Louisiana Parole Project Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Vital Projects Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vital Projects Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vital Projects Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Proteus Fund Inc, Foundation to Promote Open Society, Public Welfare Foundation Inc.
- Where is Vital Projects Fund Inc based?
- Vital Projects Fund Inc is based in NY.
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