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Vitamix Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $554k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CDC FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $116,964 |
| TEACHING KITCHEN COLLABORATIVE | $112,469 |
| ARKANSAS CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITU | $78,765 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $71,133 |
| PLANTRICIAN PROJECT | $50,000 |
| EAT REAL CERTIFIED | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $25,000 |
| HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC | $21,783 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEDICAL SC | $19,637 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of your 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
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- TKTeaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $375k · revenue +47%
- CNCHILDREN'S NATIONAL3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue ×252
- EREat Real Certified Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $145k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCEone grant, 2020 · $126k
- OFOHSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSOTY OF COLORADOone grant, 2022 · $83k
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.
Preventive Medicine Research Institute is a pioneer in scientific research investigating the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease. Our work is grounded in compassion and dedication to service. PMRI achieves its…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Accelerate improvements in global health and well-being through food and nutrition.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
To provide medical research and education and to serve in ways that stimulates an epidemic of health among those interested in improving their well-being.
The american society for nutrition, inc. (asn) was established to advance health around the world through evidence based nutrition. this is accomplished through innovative programs and services designed to advance knowledge, create and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Eat Real Certified Inc ↗
- Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Plantrician Project ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE ↗
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.
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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 Vitamix Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc — 37% 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.
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