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Vogt Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
31 to 37
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$516k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Vogt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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 arriving29$30k3%
FY202431$30k3%
FY202331$32k0%
FY202231$35k6%
FY202137$32k3%
FY202036$26k8%
FY201936$27k6%
FY201835$25k6%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$30kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$30kEnvironment$29kReligion$28kArts & Culture$27kAnimals$26kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
VA
TN
SC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heart of West Michigan United Way$14,00090%
Lake Fellowship Ministries$9,50045%
Equine Rescue of Aiken$9,00080%
Conservation Resource Alliance$9,00090%
Kids' Food Basket Inc$7,50090%
Lake County Historical Society$7,00091%
Church World Service Inc$7,00070%
Salvation Army$7,0008n/a
Indian Trails Camp$6,00080%
Grand Rapids Art Museum$5,50090%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Vogt Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heart of West Michigan United Way$14,00090%
Lake Fellowship Ministries$9,50045%
Equine Rescue of Aiken$9,00080%
Conservation Resource Alliance$9,00090%
Kids' Food Basket Inc$7,50090%
Lake County Historical Society$7,00091%
Church World Service Inc$7,00070%
Salvation Army$7,0008n/a
Indian Trails Camp$6,00080%
Grand Rapids Art Museum$5,50090%
Camp Blodgett$5,50090%
Humane Society of West Michigan$5,00090%
Meals on Wheels Western Michigan$5,00050%
Harbor Humane Society$4,50090%
Grand Valley State University$4,0008n/a
Leadership Foundations$3,00030%
St Andrews School$2,5005n/a
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$2,5005n/a
James River Association$1,50020%
Aylett Country Day School Inc$1,00020%
Tall Turf Ministries$50010%
World Renew$50010%
Wildlife Rehab Center Ltd$50013%
The Barn for Equine Learning$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeart of West Michigan United Way: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLake Fellowship Ministries: $9,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetEquine Rescue of Aiken: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetConservation Resource Alliance: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKids' Food Basket Inc: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLake County Historical Society: $7,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetChurch World Service Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Trails Camp: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Rapids Art Museum: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Blodgett: $5,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of West Michigan: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Western Michigan: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Humane Society: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Foundations: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJames River Association: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAylett Country Day School Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTall Turf Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Renew: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Rehab Center Ltd: $500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Barn for Equine Learning: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 20.

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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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Brown Tassell Foundation · James and Shirley Balk Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Vogt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vogt 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 Vogt Foundation

How much does Vogt Foundation give?
Vogt Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $31,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vogt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (11%), Human Services (11%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Vogt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heart of West Michigan United Way ($14k), Lake Fellowship Ministries ($10k), Equine Rescue of Aiken ($9k).
Does Vogt Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vogt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vogt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation.
Where is Vogt Foundation based?
Vogt Foundation is based in MI.

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 53 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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