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Vos 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.

$94k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,200
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Vos Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$94k37%
FY202313$64k46%
FY202215$129k27%
FY202124$61k38%
FY202016$51k38%
FY201924$195k54%
FY201820$431k95%
FY20174$101kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$287kEducation$222kHealth$123kReligion$105kAnimals$87kRecreation & Sports$70kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CT
CA
TN
DC
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara$168,70041%
Music Academy of the West$75,70070%
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network$67,00073%
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum$37,50071%
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara Inc$31,20011%
Re-Entry Ministry Inc$30,0002n/a
North Haven Trail Association Inc$27,5001n/a
Shed NYC Inc$26,00020%
Group for the East End Inc$19,00021%
Gray Whale Wisdom Inc$11,2001n/a
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All grantees of Vos Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara$168,70041%
Music Academy of the West$75,70070%
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network$67,00073%
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum$37,50071%
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara Inc$31,20011%
Re-Entry Ministry Inc$30,0002n/a
North Haven Trail Association Inc$27,5001n/a
Shed NYC Inc$26,00020%
Group for the East End Inc$19,00021%
Gray Whale Wisdom Inc$11,2001n/a
The Kohala Center$11,00030%
Cold Noses Warm Hearts$10,0001n/a
Ma's House & Bipoc Art Studio Inc$10,00016%
Unity Church of Santa Barbara$10,0001n/a
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc$10,00010%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$9,20050%
Goat on a Boat Inc Po Box 327$9,000121%
Organic Soup Kitchen$8,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$7,00020%
Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead$7,00030%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$5,00020%
Whitney Museum of American Art$5,00010%
South Fork Bakery for the Special Needs Corp$5,00011%
Wespac Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Vital Edge Fund$5,00013%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$5,00010%
Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc$4,50020%
Billion Oyster Project Inc$3,50020%
Save Sag Harbor Inc$3,0002n/a
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County$2,00010%
Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara$2,00010%
Sag Harbor Comm Food Pantry Inc$2,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,20020%
East End Hospice Inc$1,00010%
Peaceplayers International$1,00010%
Inspirica Inc$1,00010%
Brooklyn Boatworks Inc$1,00010%
Dickinson College$1,00010%
The 5 Gyres Institute$1,00010%
Unity Shoppe Inc$1,00010%
Heal the Ocean Inc$1,00010%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Innocence Project Inc$1,00010%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$1,00010%
Longhouse Reserve$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($481k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vos Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara: $168,700 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMusic Academy of the West: $75,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Wildlife Care Network: $67,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetSanta Barbara Maritime Museum: $37,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEnsemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara Inc: $31,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetShed NYC Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGroup for the East End Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Kohala Center: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMa's House & Bipoc Art Studio Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCommunity Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $9,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGoat on a Boat Inc Po Box 327: $9,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOrganic Soup Kitchen: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Fork Bakery for the Special Needs Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWespac Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVital Edge Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Square Park Conservancy Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBillion Oyster Project Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngels Foster Care of Santa Barbara: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSag Harbor Comm Food Pantry Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceplayers International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspirica Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Boatworks Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDickinson College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the Ocean Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLonghouse Reserve: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Steele Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Manitou Fund · The New York Community Trust

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.

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About Vos Family Foundation

How much does Vos Family Foundation give?
Vos Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $94,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Vos Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (20%), Health (11%).
Who are Vos Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara ($169k), Music Academy of the West ($76k), Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network ($67k).
Does Vos Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vos 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vos Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
Where is Vos Family Foundation based?
Vos Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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