· Public charity
Vts Industries Inc
Vts industries operates thrift stores selling donated household items received from the public.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $659,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $679,894 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,538 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $304k
- $250k+1 grant · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAV OF CALIFORNIA | $355,356 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $40,000 |
| ALL FROM THE HEART | $40,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $30,000 |
| MISSION EDGE | $30,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE RESULTS INC | $25,000 |
| SEGS4VETSDRAFT | $25,000 |
| ALHEIMERS FAMILY CENTER | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| DAV AUXILIARY | $15,000 |
| PGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- AFALL FROM THE HEART INC8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +406% · 63% of their budget
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +76%
- MGMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -12%
- PRPROGRESSIVE RESULTS INCone grant, 2019 · $20k
- STSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +343%
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 aid and assist veterans of the armed forces in southern california who are disabled, paralyzed, confined in wheelchairs, terminally ill, hospitalized, or confined in nursing homes to a more qualified way of life through recreation,…
To improve the quality of life for us military veterans and others who have spinal cord dysfunction through the use of education, advocacy, research, sports and recreation.
We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them;…
The primary mission of the uso san diego is to strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.
To accept charitable contributions and provide tax-exempt donations to organizations that deliver rehabilitation services and financial assistance to indigent veterans and to veterans with social, physical, or mental disabilities, as well…
Informational services to u.s. military veterans as to how and where to obtain veterans benefits within the government system.
The organization's mission is to empower veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity.
To assist the disabled and needy veterans, their widows, and their dependents with an emphasis on eliminating homelessness
Proudly serves veterans and their families in your community through service programs such as service officers, welcome home program to our homeless veterans, and grants used for various other veteran programs.
To provide assistance to Disabled American Veterans, their families and survivors. We assist with transportation to and from medical appointments. We also provide free assistance with benefit claims.
The organization helps veterans and their families improve their quality of life.
Assist veterans widows and their families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans of San Diego Dba Veterans Village of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Homeless Veterans of San Diego. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ALL FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATES FOR TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds Homeless Veterans of San Diego ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO DISTRICT TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF SHARING ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS SAN DIEGO CHAPTER NO 2 ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vts Industries 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.
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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