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The James L Vincent Foundation at a glance

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The James L Vincent Foundation

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.

$61k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$9.1MYouth Development$582kPublic Benefit$75kEducation$55kReligion$14kHousing & Shelter$5kArts & Culture$2kEnvironment$76Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$61,063
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VINCENT FAMILY FOUNDATION$61,063
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 4 repeat orgs$785k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$9.1M
$785k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+47%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • VF
    VINCENT FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $7.6M · revenue -75% · 57% of their budget
  • TV
    THE VINCENT FAMILY FUND CO BERNSTEIN
    3× · 2018–2020 · $865k
  • CB
    CO BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN
    2× · 2019–2020 · $582k

Funded once

  • VF
    VINCENT-JAMISON FAMILY FOUNDATION CO BERNSTEIN
    one grant, 2018 · $283k
  • TV
    THE VINCENT FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $201k
  • VF
    VINCENT-JAMISON FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $201k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
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
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
8
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colgate University; the most unlike its peers is Vincent Family Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VINCENT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $7,551,223 · PhilanthropyVINCENT FAMILY FOUNDATION+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VINCENT FAMILY FUND CO BERNSTEIN: $865,078 · OtherTHE VINCENT FAMILY FUND …CO BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN: $582,485 · OtherCO BROWN BROTHERS HARRIM…VINCENT-JAMISON FAMILY FOUNDATION CO BERNSTEIN: $282,593 · OtherVINCENT-JAMISON FAMILY F…THE VINCENT FAMILY FUND: $200,503 · OtherTHE VINCENT FAMILY FUNDVINCENT-JAMISON FUND: $200,503 · OtherVINCENT-JAMISON FUND+3 more: $24,000 · OtherPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $75,000 · Public BenefitALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBridge House: $5,000 · Human ServicesPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET GARDEN CLUB INC: $76 · Environment
Philanthropy$7,566,223Other$2,155,162Public Benefit$75,000Education$56,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000Environment$76

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVINCENT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $7,551,223 over 2y, 57% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET GARDEN CLUB INC: $76 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James L Vincent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James L Vincent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% 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 · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The James L Vincent Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The James L Vincent Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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