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Votum Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$24M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Votum Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k 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
EducationArts & CultureReligionInternationalPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving12$1.4M25%
FY202313$3.2M23%
FY20226$1.0M0%
FY202110$2.9M10%
FY202015$2.0M33%
FY201911$1.3M55%
FY201810$795k90%
FY20174$613kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.7MReligion$3.1MInternational$3.0MArts & Culture$2.1MHuman Services$582kPhilanthropy$150kHealth$60kCrime & Legal$25k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
CA
UT
VA
KS
NC
SC
AL
GA
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
World Hope International Inc$2,887,48554%
Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc$1,700,000314%
Indiana Wesleyan University$1,450,00070%
EQUIP Leadership Inc$750,00052%
Warner University$550,0006n/a
Highlands College$500,0001n/a
Harvest Partners Inc$500,0004n/a
Lilias Trotter Legacy Inc$450,000185%
Ohio Christian University$390,00041%
Lake Wales Care Center Inc$350,00035%
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All grantees of Votum Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Hope International Inc$2,887,48554%
Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc$1,700,000314%
Indiana Wesleyan University$1,450,00070%
EQUIP Leadership Inc$750,00052%
Warner University$550,0006n/a
Highlands College$500,0001n/a
Harvest Partners Inc$500,0004n/a
Lilias Trotter Legacy Inc$450,000185%
Ohio Christian University$390,00041%
Lake Wales Care Center Inc$350,00035%
International Muslim Outreach Inc$300,000624%
United Way of Central Florida Inc$150,00030%
Radio Training Network Inc$145,00020%
Equip Ministries Inc$100,0001n/a
World Witness the Board of Foreign$100,0001n/a
Association for Biblical Higher Education$78,00014%
Erskine College and Theological Seminary$50,00010%
Florida Southern College$25,00010%
Prison Fellowship International$25,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Votum Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Hope International Inc: $2,887,485 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetFellowship for Performing Arts Inc: $1,700,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetIndiana Wesleyan University: $1,450,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEQUIP Leadership Inc: $750,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLilias Trotter Legacy Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetOhio Christian University: $390,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLake Wales Care Center Inc: $350,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetInternational Muslim Outreach Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRadio Training Network Inc: $145,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAssociation for Biblical Higher Education: $78,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetErskine College and Theological Seminary: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Southern College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrison Fellowship International: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 14.

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.

Servant FoundationKS16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Votum Foundation Inc

How much does Votum Foundation Inc give?
Votum Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $1,350,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Votum Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Religion (21%), International (20%).
Who are Votum Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: World Hope International Inc ($2.9M), Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc ($1.7M), Indiana Wesleyan University ($1.4M).
Does Votum Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Votum Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Votum Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Votum Foundation Inc based?
Votum Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 34 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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