· Private foundation
Vsp Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $5,000 |
| SILVERCROSS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $3,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +39%
Mercy Ships International3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +115%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY4× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- THTHAMNA HEALTH AND EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MSMUNI SECA CHARITABLEone grant, 2019 · $5k
- TWTEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
Our mission is to expand access to quality care and improve health outcomes for all. we achieve our mission by partnering deeply to strengthen the health systems in the countries where we work, with a special focus on strengthening the…
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…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sevak Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SEVAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Silver Cross Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INDO-AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vsp Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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