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Von Voigtlander Family Foundation at a glance

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Von Voigtlander Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Animals$99kHuman Services$90kHealth$52kRecreation & Sports$41kYouth Development$31kEducation$21kEnvironment$17kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$894k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR MICHIGAN CHAPTER$5,000
CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER$3,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$3,000
NOCO HUMANE$3,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$2,500
YMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA$2,500
FISHER HOUSE OF MICHIGAN$2,500
PAWS WITH A CAUSE$2,500
EDUCATE YOUTH YPSI$2,500
BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS$2,500
KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER$2,500
ELEVATE EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY$2,500
GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRIC$2,500
THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST$2,500
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, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 8%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $2k → 10%STIGGY'S DOGS: $2k → 5%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 8%STIGGY'S DOGS: $1k → 5%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 8%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 8%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 8%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 8%NORTHFIELD HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 14%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 5%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 5%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 5%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 5%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$308k · 41 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
31

Total granted

$308k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
0%

Still filing today

63%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • AF
    ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +22%
  • PW
    Paws With A Cause
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +86%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO
    7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +90%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SE MICH
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • AH
    ANIMAL HOUSE RESCUE & GROOMING
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
2
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
3
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
4
Humane Society of South Central Mi

Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.

Animals
5
Macomb County Humane Society

Provide care for homeless/abused animals

Animals
6
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
7
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
8
Wayne County Humane Society

Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.

Animals
9
Michigan Animal Rescue League

The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…

Animals
10
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
11
Halo Helping Animals Live On Inc

Dog and cat rescue and rehousing; humane care and treatment of these animals.

Animals
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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

50 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. 50 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $18,500 · OtherFISHER HOUSE OF MICHIGANLARIMER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherLARIMER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $7,000 · OtherEDUCATE YOUTH YPSI: $7,000 · OtherCASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherCASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC+43 more: $132,200 · Other+43 moreANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $20,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS ALL…HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $10,800 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF …Noco Humane: $7,500 · AnimalsNoco HumaneDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $7,200 · AnimalsDETROIT DOG RESCUENORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $5,000 · AnimalsNORTHERN COLORADO …BARN SANCTUARY: $4,500 · AnimalsBARN SANCTUARYHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $4,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF …INGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsPaws With A Cause: $19,700 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cau…BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,900 · Human ServicesBLUE STAR SERVI…CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEA…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4,500 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR…GIRLSTOWN FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesNORTHFIELDS HUMAN SERVICES INC WHITMORE LAKE AREA HUMAN SERVICES: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $17,500 · HealthWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $2,700 · HealthHEARTS & HORSES INC: $2,000 · HealthBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $9,200 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH STAR REACH: $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $8,500 · EnvironmentWOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · EnvironmentKalamazoo Nature Center: $4,500 · EnvironmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $1,300 · Recreation & Sports
Other$184,700Animals$63,000Human Services$54,100Health$22,200Youth Development$20,200Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$19,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $19,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $17,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,900 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $10,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $9,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNoco Humane: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $7,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $5,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARN SANCTUARY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM RIVER INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHURON-CLINTON METROPARKS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $2,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetABIDE MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ANN ARBOR: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOUNTIFUL HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLSTOWN FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELDS HUMAN SERVICES INC WHITMORE LAKE AREA HUMAN SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALLANTFEW INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnn Arbor Young Men's Christian Association: $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.

  • Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds Noco Humane ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Harry a and Margaret …DTE Energy FoundationAnn Arbor Area Commun…Colorado Gives Founda…Otter Cares Foundatio…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …BISSELL Pet FoundationWilliam E Dean III Ch…Pedigree Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · BISSELL Pet Foundation · William E Dean III Charitable Foundation · Pedigree 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 Von Voigtlander Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Von Voigtlander Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 76 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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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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