· Private foundation
Joseph Vigman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETZ CHAIM | $4,000 |
| CHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION | $3,500 |
| PEARLSTONE CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER | $2,500 |
| CAMP RAMAH | $2,000 |
| WOW | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND | $1,500 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $1,500 |
| TORAH INSTITUTE | $300 |
| BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM | $250 |
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 (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +74% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 92% 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
- FMFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +13%
- AIADAMAH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +211%
- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC2× · 2020–2022 · $200 · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FMFRANKLIN & MARSHALL KLEHR CENTERone grant, 2022 · $3k
- BABETH AM SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2020 · $2k
- CACANTORS ASSEMBLY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +319%
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 weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 33 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 FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds CANTORS ASSEMBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds KLEINS SHOPRITE OF MARYLAND CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph Vigman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Vigman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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