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The Vinger Family Foundation Co Curi Capital LLC

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$143kHealth$136kEducation$36kFood & Nutrition$32kHuman Services$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kArts & Culture$14kMembership Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI$45,000
ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP$15,000
EVERGREEN CEMETERY$10,000
SHELBURNE MUSEUM$10,000
SHELBURNE FARMS$10,000
UW-LACROSSE FOUNDATION$5,000
COYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$5,000
CHARLOTTE VOLUNTEER FIRE RESCUE SVS$5,000
MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DEAF$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AME: $3k → 8%WAFER: $3k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $16k → 6%EVERGREEN CEMETERY: $10k → 14%SHELBURNE MUSEUM: $10k → 10%CHANCES FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 11%WAFER: $3k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $15k → 6%SHELBURNE FARMS: $10k → 10%CHANCES FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 11%WAFER: $3k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $14k → 6%ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILD: $6k → 11%WAFER: $3k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $13k → 6%COYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%WAFER: $3k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $13k → 6%ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILD: $5k → 11%WAFER: $3k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $12k → 6%ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILD: $5k → 11%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $11k → 6%ESSEX RESCUE INC: $3k → 10%ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILD: $5k → 11%GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI: $45k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $10k → 6%ESSEX RESCUE INC: $3k → 10%COYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $4k → 11%GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI: $15k → 12%MELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 13%AZB HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI: $6k → 12%AZB HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 12%CHARLOTTE VOLUNTEER FIRE RESCUE SVS: $5k → 10%ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILD: $3k → 11%GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 12%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LACROS: $5k → 12%GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATI: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
MA
CA
MD
AZ
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$393k · 17 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$393k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+40%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalPublic BenefitFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • GL
    Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +48%
  • AC
    Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +952%
  • SC
    ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue ×176 · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LACROS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • FB
    FLAT BROKE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -53%
  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AME
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Shivers Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Access to Cancer Care Foundation
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3
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
4
The Animal Medical Center

Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

Animals
5
Sheba Farms Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Children's Cancer Research Fund

Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.

Philanthropy
7
Imagine a Cure Cancer Treatment
Health
8
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
11
We Beat Cancer
Philanthropy
12
Adam Bullen Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Azb Foundation 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMP: $103,500 · OtherROYAL FAMILY KIDS' CAMPMELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOL: $36,000 · OtherMELROSE MINDORO HIGH SCHOOLUW-LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $23,000 · OtherUW-LACROSSE FOUNDATIONCHARLOTTE VOLUNTEER FIRE RESCUE SVS: $12,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF LA CROSSE: $11,000 · OtherEVERGREEN CEMETERY: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $38,700 · Other+11 moreGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $81,500 · HealthGundersen Lutheran Medical Fo…ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $17,000 · HealthST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INCEssex Rescue Inc: $8,000 · HealthEssex Rescue Inc+1 more: $1,500 · HealthArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $23,000 · Public BenefitWAFER INC: $17,000 · Food & NutritionSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE FARMS: $14,000 · EnvironmentCOYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$234,200Health$108,000Public Benefit$23,000Food & Nutrition$17,000Arts & Culture$14,000Environment$14,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $81,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $17,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetWAFER INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEssex Rescue Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHANCES FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLAT BROKE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTEAM TONY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAZB FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAFER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds COYOTES AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Essex Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHANCES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FLAT BROKE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM TONY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds AZB FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Network for GoodDC8.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Vinger Family Foundation Co Curi Capital LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vinger Family Foundation Co Curi Capital LLC. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Essex Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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Find your warmest path to The Vinger Family Foundation Co Curi Capital LLC 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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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