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Vonage Foundation Corporation at a glance

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Vonage Foundation Corporation

To make grants to individuals affected by a severe financial hardship due to illness, accident, death, natural disaster or other unexpected circumstance.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$430kHuman Services$383kInternational$104kCrime & Legal$41kYouth Development$33kEmployment$30kPhilanthropy$21kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRLS WHO CODE$75,000
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 (FY22–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIRLS WHO CODE: $125k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $100k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $75k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Vonage Foundation Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Vonage Foundation Corporationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$900k · 19 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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26

Total granted

$900k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+29%

Still filing today

68%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • GIRLS WHO CODE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +8%
  • SC
    STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $200k · revenue +15%
  • TJ
    THE JILLIAN FUND
    3× · 2018–2020 · $55k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -59%
  • FF
    FRANCES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • CJ
    CURE JM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · 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
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health
4
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
5
Children's Cancer Fund of New Mexico

The children's cancer fund of new mexico exists to help persons from new mexico who have been diagnosed with and treated for childhood cancer (at a new mexico pediatric oncology facility) and their families cope with the day-to-day…

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Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
7
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
10
Children's Health Foundation Inc

To improve health outcomes for children by fostering a strong culture of quality improvement within pediatric care through meaningful change and actionable measures.

Health
11
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
12
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Jillian Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 46 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)
26/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S INCORPORATED: $58,515 · OtherCHILDREN'S INCORPORATEDTHE JILLIAN FUND: $55,000 · OtherTHE JILLIAN FUNDTHE KORTNEY ROSE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE KORTNEY ROSE FOUNDATION INCCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES COUNTY INC: $40,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES COUNTY INCTHE VALERIE FUND: $39,000 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUNDCOLLIER YOUTH SERVICES: $24,500 · Other+18 more: $73,900 · Other+18 moreGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INCGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $15,250 · Human ServicesUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100,000 · InternationalUnited Sta…+1 more: $1,900 · InternationalTHE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC: $37,000 · HealthCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $7,000 · HealthCURE JM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $2,500 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EmploymentSOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN: $15,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHolmdel Kiwanis Foundation Inc: $2,500 · PhilanthropyKIWANIS FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMONMOUTH COUNTY POLICE CHIEFS ASSN CO CHIEF KEVIN SAUTER: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$530,915Human Services$315,250International$101,900Health$64,250Employment$30,000Education$16,500Philanthropy$9,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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 budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JILLIAN FUND: $55,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE KORTNEY ROSE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $39,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC: $37,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN: $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSPECIAL PEOPLE UNITED TO RIDE INC: $10,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCURE JM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolmdel Kiwanis Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY POLICE CHIEFS ASSN CO CHIEF KEVIN SAUTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

Oceanfirst FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…New Jersey Natural Ga…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Shore Clubhouse Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Vonage Foundation Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Vonage Foundation Corporation 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 46 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
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home