· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 79 grants below total $8,779,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $41,859,735 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,079,935 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $664k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $33M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $33M to organizations and $176k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESET ALCOHOL, COUNTRY HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATA USE (CHISU), DATA FOR HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, OVERDOSE PREVENTION (OPIOID), PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY CITIES, ROAD SAFETY, STREAM TB, TOBACCONOMICS, USAID BEBAS-TB, TOBACCO CONTROL, TOBACCO CONTROL NON MASS MEDIA, M&G GRANTS · DATA FOR HEALTH, RESOLVE, TOBACCO CONTROL, AND TOBACCO CONTROL NON MASS MEDIA · RESET ALCOHOL
Stated purpose: OBESITY PREVENTION & FOOD POLICY · DATA FOR HEALTH · RESET ALCOHOL
Stated purpose: RESET ALCOHOL, DATA FOR HEALTH, OBESITY PREVENTION & FOOD POLICY, PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY CITIES, ROAD SAFETY, TOBACCO CONTROL, AND M&G GRANTS · RESET ALCOHOL, OBESITY PREVENTION & FOOD POLICY, AND PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY CITIES · OBESITY PREVENTION & FOOD POLICY
Stated purpose: DATA FOR HEALTH, PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY CITIES, ROAD SAFETY, TOBACCO CONTROL NON MASS MEDIA, AND M&G GRANTS · STREAM TB AND TREAT TB · RESET ALCOHOL
Stated purpose: TOBACCO CONTROL NON MASS MEDIA · DATA DRIVEN HEALTH POLICY AND M&G GRANTS · RESET ALCOHOL
Stated purpose: OBESITY PREVENTION & FOOD POLICY · RESET ALCOHOL · DATA FOR HEALTH
Stated purpose: TOBACCO CONTROL NON MASS MEDIA · PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY CITIES
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS4× · 2019–2022 · $5.8M · revenue +114%
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +102%
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2022 · $3.3M · revenue +123%
Funded once
- RTRESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INCone grant, 2022 · $36M · revenue -61%
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Incone grant, 2023 · $638k · revenue +9%- JCJHPIEGO CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $574k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
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,…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
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…
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…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
National institute for reproductive health, inc. works to protect and advance equitable access to reproductive health care by building power at the state and local level. using an approach that is rooted in partnerships with state and…
Drug strategies promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education and treatment.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 185 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Grand Rapids Red Project ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALIMA USA INC ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds Newark Community Street Team Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN MI HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSO INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Harm Reduction Michigan ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NEXT HARM REDUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMORG ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS AIDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RECOVERY PROJECT ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- Continuum of Care Inc — 100% of income from government
- Big Cities Health Coalition Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Black Lives Matter Paterson — 48% of income from government
- Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance Inc — 43% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation — 32% of income from government
- Trenton Health Team Inc — 31% of income from government
- Health Research & Educational Trust of New Jersey — 25% of income from government
- Chosen Generation Community Corp — 24% of income from government
- Center for Disease Dynamics Economics & Policy Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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 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.