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Vollers Family Foundation Inc

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$87kHousing & Shelter$60kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$21kEducation$17kYouth Development$17kRecreation & Sports$5kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$503k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEYPORT SAILING CENTER FOUNDATION$4,000
CASA OF BERKS COUNTY$4,000
CARBON COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS$4,000
NORTH BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$4,000
LIFE CHOICES INC$4,000
HOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY$4,000
ST JOHNS CHURCH ON MORGAN HILL$4,000
PROJECT OF EASTON$2,000
3RD STREET ALLIANCE$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%LIFE CHOICES INC: $4k → 7%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%MIDDLE EARTH: $4k → 5%MIDDLE EARTH: $4k → 5%MIDDLE EARTH: $2k → 5%CERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $500 → 4%MIDDLE EARTH: $2k → 5%CERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $500 → 4%MIDDLE EARTH: $2k → 5%MIDDLE EARTH: $2k → 5%MIDDLE EARTH: $1k → 5%OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $4k → 5%OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $4k → 5%OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $2k → 5%OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $2k → 5%OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $2k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$227k · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$227k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-42%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +504%
  • ME
    Middle Earth
    7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +37%
  • MF
    MIDLAND FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IO
    IHN OF SOMERSET COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • T2
    THE 200 CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -42%

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.

1
Meals On Wheels of Somerset County Inc

Providing meals to the elderly and needy

Food & Nutrition
2
Somerset County Mobile Food Bank

To provide food assistance in the local community

Food & Nutrition
3
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…

Human Services
4
The Next Step Center Inc

To provide a temporary home for somerset county families and individuals, enabling them to work toward a resolution of issues that might have led to homelessness. we do this by referrals to other county agencies for potential assistance…

Human Services
5
The People Who Care Food Cupboard

The mission of the food cupboard is to nourish and feed those in our community who are unable to do so on their own primarily due to limited financial resources.

Food & Nutrition
6
Family Promise of Cape May County

To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.

Human Services
7
Somerset Treatment Services Inc

Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.

Health
8
My Fathers House Inc

My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.

Health
9
Somerset Commission on Aging

Provide transportation and meals and additional assistance to elderly

Human Services
10
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

11
Shelter Service Inc

Shelter services inc provides temporary shelter to the homeless from multiple counties and facilitates programs to prevent homelessness through various housing/rent/utility assistance services.

12
Family Promise of Hunterdon County Inc

Provide shelter and care to homeless of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Essex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Certified Fitness for Special Needs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH BRANCH REFORMED CHURCH — $83,000 · OtherNORTH BRANCH REFORMED CHURCHIHN OF SOMERSET COUNTY — $4,010 · OtherKEYPORT SAILING CENTER FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherST JOHNS CHURCH ON MORGAN HILL — $4,000 · OtherCASA OF BERKS COUNTY — $4,000 · OtherNORTH BRANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $4,000 · Other+2 more — $3,500 · OtherMiddle Earth — $16,677 · Human ServicesMiddle EarthOPERATION JERSEY CARES INC — $13,677 · Human ServicesOPERATION JERSEY…LIFE CHOICES INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CHOICES INCPROJECT OF EASTON INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT OF EASTO…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC — $19,077 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK N…HUNTERS HELPING THE HUNGRY INC — $16,177 · Food & NutritionHUNTERS HELPING…Samaritan Homeless Interim Program Inc — $20,677 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan Hom…FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMIS…HOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF — $29,000 · ReligionHOME OF SOME…MIDLAND FOUNDATION — $16,677 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationCARBON COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS — $4,000 · Animals
Other$106,510Human Services$37,354Food & Nutrition$35,254Housing & Shelter$30,677Religion$29,000Education$17,177Animals$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF — $29,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSamaritan Homeless Interim Program Inc — $20,677 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC — $19,077 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMiddle Earth — $16,677 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMIDLAND FOUNDATION — $16,677 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTERS HELPING THE HUNGRY INC — $16,177 over 7y, 11% of budgetOPERATION JERSEY CARES INC — $13,677 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCARBON COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF BERKS COUNTY — $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT OF EASTON INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE 200 CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Verizon FoundationNJ16.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Vollers Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 33%
  • Hunters Helping the Hungry Inc55% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Essex County Inc33% of income from government
  • Middle Earth30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Vollers Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vollers Family Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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