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Vonsternberg Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$472k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Omaha Botanical Center Inc$25,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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About Vonsternberg Family Foundation

How much does Vonsternberg Family Foundation give?
Vonsternberg Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Vonsternberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Environment (83%), Religion (17%).
Who are Vonsternberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Omaha Botanical Center Inc ($25k).
Does Vonsternberg Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Vonsternberg Family Foundation based?
Vonsternberg Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 2 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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