GrantmakersCalifornia

V-Day

San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-3389430. Reported 26 grants totalling $821,830 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$17,500median reported grant
$821,830granted, 2020-2023
0%of grantees funded again the next year
33%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For V-Day, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I73) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 33% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $17,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $273,830. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Community Partners InternationalBerkeley, CA$273,830112021
Actm CorpRockville Centre, NY$171,000112021
African American Policy ForumNew York, NY$30,000112021
Curious Communications IncNew York, NY$30,000112022
Native American Community BoardLake Andes, SD$25,000112021
Alianza Nacional De Campesinas IncOxnard, CA$20,000112023
Black Alliance for Just ImmigrationBrooklyn, NY$20,000112021
Global Prostate Cancer Research Foundation IncNew York, NY$20,000112020
Honor the EarthColstrip, MT$20,000112021
He Looked Like a PostcardDetroit, MI$20,000112021
Kvo IncorporatedBrooklyn, NY$20,000112021
Minister Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church ONew York, NY$20,000112020
The Fiu FoundationMiami, FL$20,000112022
The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples IncArcata, CA$15,000112021
Clifton House IncBaltimore, MD$10,000112022
Connect IncNew York, NY$10,000112022
Feminist Com FoundationWoodstock, NY$10,000112020
Giving Back Fund IncBoston, MA$10,000112021
Know Thy Self ProductionsAlbany, NY$10,000112023
Meadows-Livingstone SchoolSan Francisco, CA$10,000112023
Menddigap IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000112023
One Fair Wage IncCambridge, MA$10,000112020
The Reconciliation Center IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000112020
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens RightsChicago, IL$10,000112023
The World Cant WaitNew York, NY$10,000112021
Foundation for Filipina Womens NetworkSan Francisco, CA$7,000112020

0 of 26 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
5 orgs
Civil Rights
5 orgs
Arts & Culture
3 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Medical Research
1 org
Environment
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20206$77,000$10,000
202111$614,830$20,000
20224$70,000$15,000
20235$60,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

45% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$371K
California
$326K
South Dakota
$25K
Montana
$20K
Michigan
$20K
Florida
$20K
Massachusetts
$20K
Maryland
$10K

Down to the city

Berkeley, CA
$274K
Rockville Centre, NY
$171K
New York, NY
$120K
Brooklyn, NY
$60K
Lake Andes, SD
$25K
Oxnard, CA
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsTides Foundation11 shared recipientsRockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from V-Day's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 4104 24TH Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114.

EIN 94-3389430 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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