How much did VITAL STRATEGIES INC grant in FY2024?

VITAL STRATEGIES INC reported 79 grants totaling $41,859,735 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is VITAL STRATEGIES INC based?

VITAL STRATEGIES INC is based in NY.

VITAL STRATEGIES INC

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· Public charity

VITAL STRATEGIES INC

At vital strategies, we're reimagining public health, working for a world where everyone, everywhere is protected by equitable and effective public health systems.

$42M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$516k

Largest

01What you fund

0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$54MEducation$10MInternational$8.5MArts & Culture$4.7MCrime & Legal$3.8MPhilanthropy$3.7MHuman Services$2.1MCommunity Improvement$933kEnvironment$842kOther$40M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

haipromotestreatbankcareresolvecdc

2020

jhpiegogovernmentsresolvecarerightmusorapid

2021

traditionalresolvecaresciencerightmusogovernments

2022

resolveevidence-basednationsprevention foodfood policyactivitiesgreatest

2023

tobacco controlcontrol nonnon massmass mediaprevention foodfood policycdc

2024

tobacco controlcontrol nonnon massmass mediaprevention foodfood policyreset alcohol

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k25 grants · $664k
$50k–250k46 grants · $5.4M
$250k+7 grants · $2.7M

$77,500

Median grant

States reached

$114M

Total assets

Largest grants

LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$516,060
NEW JERSEY HARM REDUCTION COALITION$438,607
NEWARK COMMUNITY STREET TEAM INC$408,329
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$389,249
DREAM CORPSDREAMORG$380,000
COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR RESOURCES AND EMPOWERMENT INC$277,360
BAD RIVER TRIBE$254,968
NEXT HARM REDUCTION$242,000
PORT CITY HARM REDUCTION$225,888
BLACK LIVES MATTER PATERSON$221,814
VOICES OF HOPE - LEXINGTON INC$220,029
BIG CITIES HEALTH COALITION$209,000
THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND$203,476
KENTUCKY EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER$190,504
REMEDY ALLIANCE INC$188,956

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$83M · 114 repeat orgs$45M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.

114 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114

Total granted

$83M

$43M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+65%

Still filing today

78%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

TU
THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND
6× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +214%
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2022 · $3.3M · revenue +85%
TO
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +13%

Funded once

RT
RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $36M · revenue +1925%
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +403%
NONPROFIT ENTERPRISE AT WORK INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $638k · revenue +65%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

Institute for Public Health Innovation

Iphi develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. our work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that…

Human Services

Action Wellness

Provide broad range of services to people in philadelphia infected and affected by the hiv disease and other chronic illnesses.

Health

Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

Massachusetts Public Health Association

The massachusetts public health association (mpha) is the champion for public health in the commonwealth. we are a catalyst for change, eliminating health inequities and promoting healthy communities for all.

Health

National Network of Public Health

To support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes.

Health

Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

Commonhealth Action

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

Health

University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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National Coalition On Health Care

The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…

Health

Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health

One Community Health

To advance health and social justice for all members of our community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is Yale University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%6/185

the rest of the field

11%

206,158/1,819,380

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

143 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

137/143

Grantees still filing

120/143

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$53,847,769Other$43,414,839Education$10,310,933International$8,519,354Arts & Culture$4,694,781Crime & Legal$3,767,318Philanthropy$3,720,004

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Elton John AIDS Foundation IncNY31.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · AIDS United · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Kresge Foundation · New Venture Fund · Community Foundation for Southeast · Path · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · University of Pittsburgh · Gates Foundation · Resolve to Save Lives Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation VITAL STRATEGIES INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHILO NJ A NJ NON-PROFIT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 53.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 871030570 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHILO NJ A NJ NON-PROFIT CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Vital Strategies Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vital Strategies Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

VITAL STRATEGIES INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?