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Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k39 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMMAUS SOUP KITCHENEMMAUS MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE | $50,000 |
| SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA | $45,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN | $25,000 |
| PHSC FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $20,000 |
| ERIE CITY MISSION | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| VISION FOR THE POOR | $15,000 |
| F W HIRT EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND | $10,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CAMP NOTRE DAME | $9,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF CARING | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
54 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TSTHE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA4× · 2020–2023 · $156k · revenue +67%
- MCMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +75%
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- 1S1PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $7k
- EEHCAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCINCINNATI CENTER FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERSone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anna Foundation Inc Assoc for Needy and Neglected Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VISION FOR THE POOR ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds Community of Caring Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP NOTRE DAME INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds F W HIRT EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds DR GERTRUDE A BARBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Iroquois School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds Flagship Niagara League ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · The Britton Family Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Erie County · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation · McBrier Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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