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Vollers Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -42% for those 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
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.

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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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.

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12
Family Promise of Hunterdon County Inc

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Essex County Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Verizon FoundationThe Provident Bank Fo…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Community Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ16.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vollers Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vollers Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Hunters Helping the Hungry Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Essex County Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Middle Earth: 30% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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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