New York · Public charity
Vital Strategies Inc
Our mission is to work in partnership to reimagine evidence-based, locally driven policies and practices to advance public health.
- $42M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 51%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $8.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $77,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $516,060
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 77
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $114M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 51% of the organizations Vital Strategies Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 74 | $8.5M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $9.3M | 51% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $46M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $20M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $21M | 70% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $11M | 84% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolve to Save Lives Inc | $35,658,575 | 1 | 21% |
| Quintiles (Iqvia) | $13,578,369 | 6 | n/a |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids | $5,824,996 | 4 | 12% |
| Pan American Sanitary Bureau | $4,841,319 | 6 | n/a |
| National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc | $3,900,055 | 6 | 1% |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | $3,500,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $3,258,809 | 4 | 1% |
| Health Research Inc | $2,242,367 | 2 | 0% |
| The Grand Rapids Red Project | $1,405,003 | 3 | 32% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,403,114 | 4 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Vital Strategies Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · AIDS United · New Venture Fund · National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastad · Gates Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · University of Pittsburgh · Laura and John Arnold Foundation
How this is measured
About Vital Strategies Inc
- How much does Vital Strategies Inc give?
- Vital Strategies Inc reported 79 itemized grants totaling $8,779,800, out of $41,859,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Vital Strategies Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (79%), International (10%), Crime & Legal (4%).
- Who are Vital Strategies Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Resolve to Save Lives Inc ($36M), Quintiles (Iqvia) ($14M), Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids ($5.8M).
- Does Vital Strategies Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vital Strategies Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation to Promote Open Society, Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc, AIDS United.
- Where is Vital Strategies Inc based?
- Vital Strategies Inc is based in NY.
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