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The Craig W Virden Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$151kHuman Services$55kInternational$23kEducation$19kCivil Rights$13kAnimals$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR THE SOUTH ORANGE PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
mothers2mothers$10,000
CROSSING THRESHOLDS$10,000
GallopNYC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GallopNYC: $10k → 20%GallopNYC: $10k → 20%GallopNYC: $10k → 20%GallopNYC: $10k → 20%GallopNYC: $5k → 20%GallopNYC: $5k → 20%GallopNYC: $5k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
4
Unseen

Accelerate the growth of anti-trafficking and root cause organizations to impact more people globally. we envision a world where exploiters are stopped, vulnerable people have livelihoods, and trafficking survivors pursue lives of freedom…

Community Improvement
5
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
6
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
7
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
8
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International
12
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC — $150,000 · HealthMOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INCINTACT AMERICA INC — $12,500 · HealthINTACT AMERICA INCGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEAR…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR THE SOUTH ORANGE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $15,000 · OtherFOUNDATIO…African Artists' Community Dev Project — $7,000 · OtherAfrican A…FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $1,000 · OtherCROSSING THRESHOLDS INC — $10,000 · EducationWilliams College — $2,500 · EducationBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $7,000 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,000 · International
Health$162,500Human Services$56,000Other$23,000Education$12,500Animals$7,000International$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC — $150,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $55,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetINTACT AMERICA INC — $12,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCROSSING THRESHOLDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC
  • Who funds GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC
  • Who funds INTACT AMERICA INC
  • Who funds CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Craig W Virden Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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