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Vollman 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Vollman Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’22
7
’23
5
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$70kArts & Culture$27kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$10kCommunity Improvement$8kFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$3kEducation$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$799k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$25,000
SETON FUND OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY$7,000
STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC$5,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY$3,500
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC$2,500
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$2,500
ST AUSTIN CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $1k → 10%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 5 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$48k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SA
    STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • AS
    ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +93%
  • TA
    TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • VA
    VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM AMERICAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -92%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • CC
    CHRISTI CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +29%
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
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
5
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
6
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc

This entity is dedicated to providing hope and support for brain tumor patients and caregivers, while advancing public awareness of brain tumors, quality of care, and brain tumor research.

Health
9
American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

Crime & Legal
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
United States Tennis Association- Middle States Section

The org. is a section of the united states tennis assoc. and is dedicated to carrying out the goals of the national assoc. within its region, particularly with respect to promoting tennis opportunities for juniors and adults of all…

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12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Moms With Cancer. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $70,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON FOUNDATIONTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $7,500 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $7,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADV…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD B…CHRISTI CENTER: $2,000 · OtherCHRISTI CENTERST AUSTIN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1,500 · OtherSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING …VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · InternationalVICTORIA …Moms With Cancer: $4,500 · HealthEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $2,500 · Crime & LegalGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTIN: $1,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$70,000Other$34,500Arts & Culture$15,000International$12,000Health$4,500Crime & Legal$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,500Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMoms With Cancer: $4,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTI CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Vollman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vollman 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.

    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 14 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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