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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.

$77k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$829kInternational$706kEducation$302kFood & Nutrition$259kRecreation & Sports$238kHuman Services$121kYouth Development$81kScience & Tech$33kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM RESOURCES OF UTAH COUNTY$50,000
VIVINT GIVES BACK$26,919
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 (FY17–21, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEIGHBORS INC: $2k → 6%GOOD DOG AUTISM COMPANIONS: $7k → 11%PLAY PLACE FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: $5k → 12%ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 17%POINT ARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $500 → 11%PLAY PLACE FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: $500 → 12%POINT ARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $500 → 11%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $500 → 12%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $4k → 8%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $10k → 8%UNITED ANGELS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%ANGEL'S HANDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%UNITED ANGELS FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%VIVINT GIVES BACK: $27k → 8%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
NV
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
MO
KY
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Vivint Giveback Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in UT; by stated purpose, 53%.

The Vivint Giveback Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 32 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
92

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+7%

Still filing today

53%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & 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

  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $259k · revenue +83%
  • UV
    UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $170k · revenue +5%
  • SA
    Spectrum Academy
    3× · 2017–2019 · $41k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $584k
  • GA
    GLOBE AWARE
    one grant, 2017 · $114k · revenue -74%
  • FF
    FAST - FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYND
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
2
The Utah Autism Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Utah Kids Foundation

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…

Education
4
Adventures With Autism Inc

Adventures adventures with autism sponsors and matches professionally trained, autism therapy dogs with targeted families in need.

Health
5
Finding Autistic Solutions for Tomorrow

Assistance to families effected by autis

Health
6
Family Unity International Inc
Human Services
7
Arizona Autism United Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Autism Days

Provide swimming safety to children with autism

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9
Desert Autism Foundation

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

Education
10
Rehabilitating Autism Daily Abbr Rad

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.

Education
11
Help Autism India Inc

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…

Education
12
Ourtism

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 126 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $597,127 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $583,867 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAST - FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYND: $99,563 · Other+90 more: $910,039 · Other+90 moreNATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 · HealthNATIONAL …AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $58,352 · HealthAUTISM SP…+7 more: $26,603 · Health+7 moreFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $258,547 · InternationalFEED MY S…+1 more: $5,500 · InternationalUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · EducationSpectrum Academy: $41,067 · EducationKids Who Count: $20,000 · Education+5 more: $15,894 · EducationGLOBE AWARE: $114,316 · Community ImprovementVIVINT GIVES BACK: $26,919 · Human ServicesUnited Angels Foundation: $25,500 · Human ServicesUtah Parent Center Inc: $14,250 · Human ServicesGOOD DOG AUTISM COMPANIONS: $7,120 · Human ServicesPLAY PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER: $5,500 · Human Services+5 more: $5,103 · Human ServicesLOVELOUD FOUNDATION % TRIBECA BUSINESS MGMT: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLARRY H MILLER CHARITIES: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$2,190,596Health$284,955International$264,047Education$246,961Community Improvement$114,316Human Services$84,392Youth Development$77,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $258,547 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetGLOBE AWARE: $114,316 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $58,352 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVELOUD FOUNDATION % TRIBECA BUSINESS MGMT: $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSpectrum Academy: $41,067 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leonardo: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVIVINT GIVES BACK: $26,919 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Angels Foundation: $25,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLARRY H MILLER CHARITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKids Who Count: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUtah Parent Center Inc: $14,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHERITAGE SCHOOLS INC: $8,603 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH AUTISM ACADEMY: $7,253 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD DOG AUTISM COMPANIONS: $7,120 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMILL SPRINGS ACADEMY INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF WASATCH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetInternet Keep Safe Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWasatch Community Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUtah Metropolitan Ballet: $4,202 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE 11Q RESEARCH AND RESOURCE GROUP INC: $3,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMERAKEY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCourage Reins: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Mexico Autism Society: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHELP INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSaprea: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids on the Move Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Restore Ability: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $1,645 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NORTH UTAH COUNTY SOCCER: $1,254 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,141 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS HANDS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScenicView Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION: $250 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 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 ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …The Ashton Family Fou…Thom & Gail Williamse…Texas Instruments Fou…The Ray and Tye Noord…David Kelby Johnson M…The Miner FoundationThe Kahlert Foundatio…doTERRA Healing Hands…Hurst Wood Education …
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vivint Giveback Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vivint Giveback Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Vivint Giveback Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Vivint Giveback 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 126 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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