· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds HAILEY ICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William O Vann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William O Vann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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