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The Vig Family 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.

$114k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$55kEducation$50kCommunity Improvement$30kPublic Benefit$25kHousing & Shelter$5kRecreation & Sports$5kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$4k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
TOWN OF NEWPORT$25,000
CONFERENCE BOARD INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
ROSIES PLACE INC$5,000
DISABLED SPORTS USA$5,000
GAINING GROUND INC$3,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GAINING GROUND INC: $4k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $25k → 10%ROSIES PLACE INC: $5k → 16%CONFERENCE BOARD INC: $15k → 17%DISABLED SPORTS USA: $5k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $5k → 7%TOWN OF NEWPORT: $25k → 10%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $20k → 10%PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - MASSACHUSETTS GEN: $25k → 16%CONFERENCE BOARD INC: $15k → 17%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Town of Newport NH: $25,000 · OtherTown of Newport NHPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - MASSACHUSETTS GEN: $25,000 · OtherPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - MASSACHUSETTS GE…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALGAINING GROUND INC: $3,500 · OtherENDICOTT COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGEThe Conference Board Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementThe Conference Boar…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsROSIE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$78,500Education$50,000Community Improvement$30,000Health$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conference Board Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–10%
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.

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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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