· Private foundation
Vranos 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $477k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $1,715,736 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $500,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $250,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $235,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $138,167 |
| HOPKINS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $100,000 |
| HEDGE FUNDS CARE INC | $75,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $75,000 |
| CASA NYC | $71,000 |
| GABRIELLES ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER | $65,000 |
| EAST HARLEM SCHOOL AT EXODUS HOUSE | $55,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $417k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +107%
- HSHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +8%
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- HUHARVARD UNIVERSITY - STEM CELL RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $750k
- SGST GEORGE GREEK CHURCH CULTURE CTRone grant, 2022 · $100k
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +49%
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.
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.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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.
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 123 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Claire L Helsing Foundation · The Gusti Brandt Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Dalio Family Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vranos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vranos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
- Women's Mentoring Network Inc: 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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