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Vukasin Family 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$74kHuman Services$3kHealth$3kReligion$1kArts & Culture$683Youth Development$300Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$420k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL$3,000
COMMUNITY STORE HOUSE$1,000
WHITES CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
CHIST HAVEN FOR CHILDREN$1,000
MORAGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BRICKS$565
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$200
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BRICKS: $565 → 8%SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%THE MARTIN C KAUFFMAN 100 CLUB OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $683 → 10%WHITES CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 11%REACH OUT AND READ: $1k → 12%FOUR WINDS WESTWARD HO: $300 → 10%Grounds for Health: $3k → 10%SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%UC Berkeley Foundation: $15k → 10%CHIST HAVEN FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 11%Martin C Kauffman One Hundred Club: $1k → 9%PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%COMMUNITY STORE HOUSE: $1k → 11%THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $1k → 9%Piedmont Education Foundation: $3k → 10%Moraga Education Foundation: $4k → 9%Piedmont Education Foundation: $2k → 10%Moraga Education Foundation: $4k → 9%THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $20k → 10%MORAGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $20k → 10%MORAGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%THE COLLEGE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $1k → 10%MORAGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%MORAGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%MORAGA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$73k · 4 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$73k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TC
    THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +44%
  • ME
    Moraga Education Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • PE
    PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UB
    UC Berkeley Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • GF
    GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -1%
  • TM
    The Martin C Kauffman One Hundred Club of Alameda Countygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +127%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
The Childrens Scholarship Fund

The Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF) empowers families by providing children in need with scholarships, and by supporting expanded educational opportunities for all children.

Education
5
Cherry Hills Christian School

Cherry Hills Christian School awakens the educational experience by preparing students to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, knowing they are His masterpieces, uniquely designed for His purpose.

Education
6
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
7
Redwood Cooperative School

Education Preschool Through Eight Grade

Education
8
Pacific Crest Montessori School

Pcs operates a school specifically designed to meet the development needs of the child from preschool through middle school, in accordance with the principles and education of human development taught by maria montessori.

9
Creekside Charter Management

To cultivate student success through mindful perseverance, critical thinking, resourcefulness and advanced knowledge that will prepare students for high levels of success in school, work, and life, while honoring the individuality and…

Education
10
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

11
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
12
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piedmont Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grounds for Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $41,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLMoraga Education Foundation — $16,200 · EducationMoraga Education FoundationPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,366 · EducationPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION+1 more — $200 · EducationUC Berkeley Foundation — $15,000 · OtherUC Berkeley FoundationTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL — $7,000 · OtherTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLThe Martin C Kauffman One Hundred Club of Alameda County — $1,413 · OtherWHITES CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC — $1,000 · OtherREACH OUT AND READ — $1,000 · OtherChrist's Haven for Children Inc — $1,000 · Other+2 more — $1,248 · OtherGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC — $2,500 · HealthFOUR WINDS — $300 · Recreation & Sports
Education$65,766Other$28,661Health$2,500Recreation & Sports$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $41,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMoraga Education Foundation — $16,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,366 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Martin C Kauffman One Hundred Club of Alameda County — $1,413 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist's Haven for Children Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR WINDS — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Vukasin Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Vukasin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vukasin Family Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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