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Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 52-2151557. Reported 43 grants totalling $3,090,569 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 20% 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.
- How much its list changes. 11% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,474 and $100,000; 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.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian University for Women -Auw- Support Foundation | Cambridge, MA | $628,881 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Fund for Women Inc | San Francisco, CA | $429,133 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | Atlanta, GA | $279,763 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Minas List Inc | Irvine, CA | $230,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women's Regional Network | Chicago, IL | $169,860 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Afghan American Foundation | Omaha, NE | $139,419 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women for Afghan Women Inc | Fresh Meadows, NY | $130,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thirty Birds Foundation | New York, NY | $116,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Afghan American Womens Association | Alexandria, VA | $115,413 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Taller Salud Inc | Loiza, PR | $105,819 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Code for Science and Society Inc | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Voices 4 Peace Incorporated | New York, NY | $81,468 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Counterpart International Inc | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Able Network Inc | Chicago, IL | $58,489 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Assel Technology Corporation | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Atlantic Council of the U S Inc | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Homeworks Trenton Inc | Princeton, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Radikal | West Hempstead, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Srd Foundation | Overland Park, KS | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Global Fund for Women (great Lakes) | San Francisco, CA | $27,050 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chelseas Fund | Lander, WY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| One Happy Mama | Gretna, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Dot Foundation Global | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,495 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Karam Foundation Nfp | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc | Wassaic, NY | $17,490 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Inhershoes Inc | Bellflower, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Future for US | Seattle, WA | $14,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Code Red Collective | New York, NY | $11,474 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chalk Back Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Survivor Fund Hub | Washington, DC | $8,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sage Afghanistan | Cranston, RI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| March for Moms Association | Lenexa, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nourish LLC | Lenexa, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
4 of 35 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Asian University for Women Support Foundation
GRANT TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE. - Radikal
GRANT TO PROVIDE AID TO WOMEN LEADERS TO ENHANCE THEIR CAPACITY TO CREATE CHANGE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. - Syria Relief and Development
GRANT TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID TO WOMEN LEADERS WORKING ON THE EARTHQUAKES THAT AFFECTED TURKEY/SYRIA. - 412 Food Rescue Inc
GRANT TO VITAL VOICES NETWORK LEADER'S ORGANIZATION TO EXPAND ITS EFFORTS TO 10 ADDITIONAL CITIES. - Inhershoes Inc
GRANT TO PROVIDE ACCESS, INSTRUCTION, AND COMMUNITY TO WOMEN, ESPECIALLY BIPOC AND WOMEN OF COLOR, IN THIS VULNERABLE TIME, THROUGH TRAININGS ON ALLYSHIP AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS THROUGH MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS. - Future for US
GRANT TO VITAL VOICES NETWORK LEADER'S BUSINESS TO REBRAND AND RESTRUCTURE THEIR BUSINESS TO ENSURE IT WILL CONTINUE TO ADVANCE WOMXN OF COLOR PROFESSIONALS AROUND THE WORLD.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $247,848 | $16,671 |
| 2022 | 6 | $566,458 | $55,972 |
| 2023 | 8 | $137,040 | $14,321 |
| 2024 | 18 | $1,996,336 | $80,734 |
| 2025 | 6 | $142,887 | $20,737 |
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
23% 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.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 5 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.
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