GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc

Washington, DC · EIN 52-2151557. Reported 37 grants totalling $2,947,682 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

30organizations funded
$30,000median reported grant
$2,947,682granted, 2021-2024
17%of grantees funded again the next year
21%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 Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 21% 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. 17% 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 $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $105,819; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $628,881. 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
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
9 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

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
Asian University for Women -Auw- Support FoundationCambridge, MA$628,881112024
Global Fund for Women IncSan Francisco, CA$429,133422022
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere IncAtlanta, GA$279,763222022
Minas List IncIrvine, CA$230,000112024
Women's Regional NetworkChicago, IL$169,860112024
Afghan American FoundationOmaha, NE$139,419112024
Women for Afghan Women IncFresh Meadows, NY$130,000112024
Thirty Birds FoundationNew York, NY$116,800112024
Taller Salud IncLoiza, PR$105,819112024
Code for Science and Society IncPortland, OR$100,000112024
United Voices 4 Peace IncorporatedNew York, NY$81,468112024
Afghan American Womens AssociationAlexandria, VA$80,000112024
Counterpart International IncWashington, DC$80,000112024
National Able Network IncChicago, IL$58,489112024
Homeworks Trenton IncPrinceton, NJ$30,000112022
RadikalWest Hempstead, NY$30,000112023
Srd FoundationOverland Park, KS$30,000112023
Global Fund for Women (great Lakes)San Francisco, CA$27,050212023
Chelseas FundLander, WY$25,000112022
One Happy MamaGretna, LA$25,000112024
Red Dot Foundation GlobalBaltimore, MD$25,000112024
412 Food Rescue IncPittsburgh, PA$20,495112021
CandidNew York, NY$20,000112023
Karam Foundation NfpChicago, IL$20,000212023
International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance IncWassaic, NY$17,490222024
Inhershoes IncBellflower, CA$15,000112021
Future for USSeattle, WA$14,915112021
Survivor Fund HubWashington, DC$8,100112024
March for Moms AssociationLenexa, KS$5,000112024
Nourish LLCLenexa, KS$5,000112024

3 of 30 (10%) 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 6 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 30 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.

International Affairs
7 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Science & Technology
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$247,848$16,671
20226$566,458$55,972
20238$137,040$14,321
202418$1,996,336$80,734

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

24% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.

California
$701K
Massachusetts
$629K
New York
$396K
Georgia
$280K
Illinois
$248K
Nebraska
$139K
Puerto Rico
$106K
Oregon
$100K

Down to the city

Cambridge, MA
$629K
San Francisco, CA
$456K
Atlanta, GA
$280K
Chicago, IL
$248K
Irvine, CA
$230K
New York, NY
$218K

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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.

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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 $30,000 -- 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 California.
  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 Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 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: 1509 16TH Street Nw, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 52-2151557 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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