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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.

$666k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$71,133
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Vitamix Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$666k20%
FY202419$1.2M11%
FY202318$1.1M33%
FY202215$755k67%
FY20215$118k80%
FY20204$242kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$2.4MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$105kSocial Science$100kEducation$71kRecreation & Sports$11k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
AR
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Vitamix Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc$374,969311%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$250,00030%
National Wic Association$194,60031%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$166,33140%
Children's National$149,57033%
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc$147,43820%
Eat Real Certified Inc$145,00032%
Brighter Bites Inc$119,88530%
Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center Inc$105,00024%
The Plantrician Project$85,00061%
Arkansas Children's Research Institute$78,76510%
Case Western Reserve University$71,13310%
Oregon Health & Science University$50,0001n/a
American College of Lifestyle Medicine$20,00020%
Pennsylvania State University$11,2181n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vitamix Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc: $374,969 over 3y, 11% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Wic Association: $194,600 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $166,331 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's National: $149,570 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHarvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc: $147,438 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEat Real Certified Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc: $119,885 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMary Mitchell Family and Youth Center Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Plantrician Project: $85,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetArkansas Children's Research Institute: $78,765 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $71,133 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican College of Lifestyle Medicine: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Vitamix Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vitamix Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Vitamix Foundation

How much does Vitamix Foundation give?
Vitamix Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $665,751 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Vitamix Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (59%), Health (33%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are Vitamix Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc ($375k), National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc ($250k), National Wic Association ($195k).
Does Vitamix Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vitamix Foundation 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 Vitamix Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Vitamix Foundation based?
Vitamix Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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