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Vose Foundation at a glance

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Vose Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$43kRecreation & Sports$6kYouth Development$3kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$1kAnimals$250Philanthropy$100Other$0
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$101k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONAWAY CAMP TRUST$1,500
DEERWOOD FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%BUCKNELL ANNUAL GIVING: $1k → 11%BROOKLYN ANIMAL ACTION: $250 → 20%WAVE HILL: $2k → 28%THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL: $4k → 9%DARDEN ANNUAL GIVING: $1k → 8%DEERWOOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%ONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $2k → 10%BUCKNELL ANNUAL GIVING: $500 → 11%THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL: $4k → 9%DARDEN ANNUAL GIVING: $1k → 8%DEERWOOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $2k → 10%PEQUOT LIBRARY: $1k → 9%ONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $2k → 10%FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%ONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $2k → 10%FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $13k → 9%FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8k → 9%HAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES: $100 → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 6 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$55k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • FC
    FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $36k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +65%
  • OC
    ONAWAY CAMP TRUST
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • WH
    WAVE HILL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +17%
  • PL
    PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +42%
  • BA
    Brooklyn Animal Action Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +102%
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
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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2
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
3
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
4
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc

Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

Education
5
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
6
Trustees of Deerfield Academy

Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…

Education
7
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
8
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education
9
The French-American School of Rhode Island

The french american school of rhode islands (fasri) multilingual experience cultivates globally-minded, confident, creative learners.

Education
10
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
11
Far Brook School

To create a supportive and caring community that cherishes love of learning, creativity, and individuality, and that provides teachers and students with both support and freedom to take risks in order to reach their full potential. a far…

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12
Brookwood School Incorporated

Brookwood's mission is to foster a joyful community of lifelong learners and upstanding global citizens who embrace a culture of curiosity, kindness, and academic accomplishment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Onaway Camp Trust; the most unlike its peers is Haitian Educational Initiatives. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $35,600 · EducationFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC: $7,515 · OtherTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL …Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Individual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant reci…ONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsONAWAY CAMP…THE DEERWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $1,500 · EnvironmentBrooklyn Animal Action Inc: $250 · AnimalsHAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES: $100 · Philanthropy
Education$36,600Other$11,015Recreation & Sports$6,000Youth Development$2,500Environment$1,500Animals$250Philanthropy$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $35,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC: $7,515 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DEERWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrooklyn Animal Action Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 10 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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