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Vsp Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Vsp Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthOther
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 arriving9$45k56%
FY20236$37k17%
FY20227$35k29%
FY20215$40k100%
FY20207$15k43%
FY201910$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$97kInternational$62kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$6kPhilanthropy$5kYouth Development$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
KY
VA
AZ
KS
AR
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$18,00040%
Pratham USA$17,10030%
Mercy Ships International$15,00030%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$11,00040%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$9,00030%
Sevak Foundation Inc$7,50024%
Operation Smile Inc$5,50030%
Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA$5,00010%
Sankara Eye Foundation USA$5,00010%
St Jude Childrens Charities Inc$5,0001n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Vsp Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$18,00040%
Pratham USA$17,10030%
Mercy Ships International$15,00030%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$11,00040%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$9,00030%
Sevak Foundation Inc$7,50024%
Operation Smile Inc$5,50030%
Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA$5,00010%
Sankara Eye Foundation USA$5,00010%
St Jude Childrens Charities Inc$5,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Silver Cross Foundation$5,00010%
Direct Relief$5,00010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$4,00010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc$3,50010%
Indo-American Center Inc$3,00012%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vsp Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPratham USA: $17,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSevak Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEkal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSankara Eye Foundation USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilver Cross Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDirect Relief: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndo-American Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 16.

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Find your warmest path to Vsp Family Foundation Inc 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.

About Vsp Family Foundation Inc

How much does Vsp Family Foundation Inc give?
Vsp Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Vsp Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), International (28%), Education (13%).
Who are Vsp Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($18k), Pratham USA ($17k), Mercy Ships International ($15k).
Does Vsp Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vsp Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Vsp Family Foundation Inc based?
Vsp Family Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 27 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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