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The Vivint Giveback Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUTISM RESOURCES OF UTAH COUNTY | $50,000 |
| VIVINT GIVES BACK | $26,919 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of The Vivint Giveback Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in UT; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC4× · 2017–2020 · $259k · revenue +83%
- UVUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2019 · $170k · revenue +5%
- SASpectrum Academy3× · 2017–2019 · $41k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $584k
- GAGLOBE AWAREone grant, 2017 · $114k · revenue -74%
- FFFAST - FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDone grant, 2018 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To support all special needs families in Utah by: 1. Sharing information about doctors and resources in the community, 2. Facilitating the legal exchange of spare supplies, 3. Providing comfort and support when our special needs children…
Adventures adventures with autism sponsors and matches professionally trained, autism therapy dogs with targeted families in need.
Assistance to families effected by autis
Our mission is to help as many families as possible with individualized supports. The Organization's vision is to help families statewide with comprehensive support services for all ages. In carrying out its mission, the Organization's…
Provide swimming safety to children with autism
The organization is dedicated and committed to raising funds to help families with children with autism in providing financial support and paying for a variety of therapy and education services
R.A.D.s mission is to make a positive impact in the lives of children with autism and their families in the Las Vegas area every day.
Autism is a severe mental disability that is a very big challenge for children affected and their families (who are the main caregivers). in india, like most developing countries, the disability is not understood well socially and…
OurTism was founded for Autistics by Autistics. Our mission is to listen, empower, and validate adults, teens, and their families in a safe community where skills and tools are shared to build purposeful, meaningful, and harmonious lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Utah Metropolitan Ballet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 126 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBE AWARE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELOUD FOUNDATION % TRIBECA BUSINESS MGMT ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Academy ↗
- Who funds The Leonardo ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VIVINT GIVES BACK ↗
- Who funds United Angels Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds LARRY H MILLER CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Kids Who Count ↗
- Who funds Utah Parent Center 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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · The Miner Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · Hurst Wood Education 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 Vivint Giveback Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
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.
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