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Vose River Charitable Fund

VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND (vrcf) promotes public health in the united states by developing tools and collaborations with other nonprofits and government health departments to promote effective policies and to support the public health workforce.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$520k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$7.2MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.3MEnvironment$945kPublic Benefit$882kSocial Science$830kCommunity Improvement$748kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $349k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.0M
$106,542
Median grant
16
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POISE FOUNDATION$520,000
METEORITE LLC$506,000
METEORITE LLC$506,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC$450,000
AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOC OF TUCSON INC$350,000
THE PUBLIC GOODS PROJECTS INC$310,000
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC$299,500
CHANGELAB SOLUTIONS$292,500
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE DBA HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PU$284,000
COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$280,000
TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTHPUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS INSTITUTE$250,000
EQUAL MEASURE$225,000
TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTHPUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS INSTITUTE$204,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$200,000
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC$197,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%WESTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $111k → 12%REINVENT SOUTH STOCKTON: $125k → 12%CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $15k → 12%THE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $420k → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTHPUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS INSTITUTE: $250k → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTHPUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS INSTITUTE: $204k → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTHPUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%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

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WA
ID
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
AL
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 Vose River Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Vose River Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 24 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
33

Total granted

$12M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AI
    American Indian Association of Tucson Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +89%
  • FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
  • TT
    THE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $924k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $299k · revenue +8%
  • BC
    BIG CITIES HEALTH COALITION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $289k · revenue +12%
  • DE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $253k · revenue -337%
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
National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc

The national network of public health institutes, inc. (nnphi) is a national public health organization chartered on june 21, 2001. its mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes…

Health
2
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
3
CommonHealth Action

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

Health
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Altarum Institute

Altarum is focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. we drive impactful changes in four domains: 1) transform health service delivery - we work…

Science & Tech
6
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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7
Public Health Law Center Inc

Help community leaders use the power of law and policy to improve america's health.

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Intealth

See schedule oto serve the public by:- assuring the qualifications of health care professionals- providing primary-source verification of credentials of health careprofessionals, as they serve throughout the world- supporting international…

Education
11
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
12
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equal Measure; the most unlike its peers is Fannie E Rippel Foundation. 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

60 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. 60 of the 75 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
38/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METEORITE LLC: $1,526,320 · OtherMETEORITE LLCHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC: $710,500 · OtherHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INCRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $525,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $379,034 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYChangeLab Solutions: $782,742 · OtherChangeLab SolutionsPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $240,000 · OtherAmerican Nonsmokers Rights Foundation: $230,000 · Other+29 more: $2,263,244 · Other+29 moreFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $1,060,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL …Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $565,439 · EducationTemple University - O…EQUAL MEASURE: $445,000 · EducationEQUAL MEASUREPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $425,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $298,671 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $175,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $175,000 · Education+6 more: $193,180 · Education+6 moreAmerican Indian Association of Tucson Inc: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Indian …THE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $924,000 · Human ServicesTHE TASK FORCE F…TIDES CENTER: $175,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERReinvent South Stockton Coalition: $125,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $111,000 · Human Services+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC: $716,800 · HealthTHE PUBLIC GO…CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $330,000 · HealthCAMPAIGN FOR …BIG CITIES HEALTH COALITION INC: $288,940 · HealthBIG CITIES HE…Center for Environmental Health: $200,000 · HealthCenter for En…CASA DE SALUD: $175,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUDSAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE: $175,000 · HealthSAN DIEGO HEA…ACCESS HEALTH: $175,000 · HealthACCESS HEALTH+5 more: $105,000 · HealthPOISE FOUNDATION: $1,035,000 · PhilanthropyDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC: $253,438 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $400,000 · EnvironmentSMART GROWTH AMERICA: $305,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH: $175,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $845,000 · Social Science
Other$6,656,840Education$3,337,290Human Services$2,615,000Health$2,165,740Philanthropy$1,298,438Environment$880,000Social Science$845,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Indian Association of Tucson Inc: $1,250,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $1,060,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION: $1,035,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $924,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $845,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetChangeLab Solutions: $782,742 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC: $716,800 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC: $710,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $565,439 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL MEASURE: $445,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $425,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $379,034 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $330,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSMART GROWTH AMERICA: $305,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $298,671 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CITIES HEALTH COALITION INC: $288,940 over 1y, 15% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $240,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Nonsmokers Rights Foundation: $230,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $210,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $200,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $175,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR MULTICUTURAL HEALTH: $175,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $175,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH: $175,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE: $175,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $175,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetACCESS HEALTH: $175,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetReinvent South Stockton Coalition: $125,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $125,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWESTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $111,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $80,880 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS: $52,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetHEALTHCARE ANCHOR NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFJC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $24,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SOUTH BROADWAY CORPORATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

The Kresge FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…De Beaumont Foundatio…WK Kellogg FoundationNational Foundation f…Kaiser Foundation Hea…New Venture FundEast Bay Community Fo…NEO Philanthropy IncGates FoundationTides FoundationThe Ford Foundation
The Kresge FoundationMI32× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · De Beaumont Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · New Venture Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Ford 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 River Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vose River Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Big Cities Health Coalition Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vose River Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Vose River Charitable Fund 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 75 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 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home