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William O Vann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $24,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 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; $2k 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
- SLST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $138k
- PMPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +31%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY5× · 2017–2021 · $5k
Funded once
- IMIDAHO MAVERICKSone grant, 2024 · $4k
- NMNATIONAL MS SOCIETY AL MSone grant, 2019 · $3k
- NMNAUTILUS MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
The Pine School's mission is to promote academic, artistic, and athletic excellence.
To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.
Secondary education & ski training with mission to provide each student with the opportunity to pursue excellence in competitive winter sports and college preparatory academics while developing strong personal values.
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.
To operate a school based on the educational model of maria montessori, including instruction for children ages 16 months to 15 years and with elementary and middle school for grades 1 through 8.
The sun valley ski education foundation, inc. is dedicated to providing winter sports programs for the youth of the wood river valley, to include all ability and interest levels, regardless of each participant's economic level. the primary…
To help every child to reach their full potential through a montessori education.
Provide baseball programs for youth in central and western Hoover, AL
The mission of Snowy Range Academy is to offer an academically rigorous content-rich integrated educational program grounded in a common foundation and sequence of study. Snowy Range Academy will practice excellence and fairness in…
Raise funds for the construction of certain facilities and to purchase equipment, goods and services to be used by the sports programs of the Board of Education of the City of Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Providing youth the opportunity to play recreational ice hockey. In addition to individual and team skill development, SSYHA seeks to foster the development of life skills including sportsmanship, mutual respect, integrity, responsibility,…
With an accomplished team of caring and dedicated Montessori educators, our mission is guiding preschool-6th grade students to academic achievement, forstering a love of learning, building character, and instilling the importance of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hailey Ice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Birmingham Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 PIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds HAILEY ICE INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 William O Vann 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.
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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