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The Viser Family Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$62kEducation$52kHealth$22kReligion$19kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$750Food & Nutrition$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,153
Median grant
1
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,153
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD EPWORTH UM CHURCH: $1k → 8%NORTH BENNETT ST SCHOOL: $250 → 16%GMCP CAPITAL CAMPAIN: $8k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA INC: $500 → 17%AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING AR: $1k → 12%PACHAMAMA'S PATH: $500 → 6%UNC-TV: $500 → 11%UNC ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%PUBLIC RADIO EAST: $1k → 14%ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 15%GRAVES MP CHURCH: $8k → 20%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 23%GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 32%HARVARD EPWORTH UM CHURCH: $500 → 8%GMCP CAPITAL CAMPAIN: $500 → 14%UNC ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%PUBLIC RADIO EAST: $1k → 14%ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 15%GRAVES MP CHURCH: $6k → 20%HARVARD EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST: $500 → 8%UNC ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%PUBLIC RADIO EAST FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SAMPSON COUNTY DSS: $3k → 20%SAMPSON COUNTY DSS: $3k → 20%UNC-CH: $10k → 13%KEOSHA SMITH: $1k → 20%THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC INC: $6k → 13%SAMPSON COUNTY DSS: $724 → 20%THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC INC: $5k → 13%ROTARY CLUB: $500 → 20%THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC INC: $5k → 13%SESSOMS MEDICAL: $500 → 20%UNC BIOLOGY: $5k → 13%CS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $500 → 20%THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC INC: $5k → 13%ROWAN BAPTST CHURCH: $500 → 20%UNC MEDICINE: $5k → 13%SAMPSON COUNTY DSS: $473 → 20%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ARTWORKS SUPPLY REIMBURSEMENT: $429 → 20%KIWANIS OF CLINTON: $300 → 20%MT PLEASANT MB CHURCH: $275 → 20%SAMPSON PARTNERS: $20k → 20%SAMPSON PARTERS: $10k → 20%SAMPSON PARTERS: $8k → 20%SAMPSON PARTERS: $3k → 20%SAMPSON PARTERS: $2k → 20%SAMPSON PARTERS: $300 → 20%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 15 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
32

Total granted

$131k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
-2%

Still filing today

13%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +145%
  • SP
    SAMPSON PARTNERS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
3
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
4
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
5
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
6
American College of Health Care Administrators

The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.

Health
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
9
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
10
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
11
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
12
Catawba College

Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. 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

8 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. 8 of the 48 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $23,441 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAMPSON PARTNERS INC: $20,300 · OtherSAMPSON PARTNERS INCSAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,400 · OtherSAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGEGRAVES MP CHURCH: $14,250 · OtherGRAVES MP CHURCHUNC ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherUNC ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLIndividual grant recipient: $8,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,583 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+32 more: $17,582 · Other+32 moreUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUND…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationPACHAMAMAS PATH INC: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE MEDICAL LETTER INC: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$139,856Education$23,250Arts & Culture$600

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 budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC RADIO EAST FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMPSON ARTS COUNCIL INC: $825 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACHAMAMAS PATH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL LETTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC RADIO EAST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMPSON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds PACHAMAMAS PATH 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.

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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 Viser Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Viser Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–10%
    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 48 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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