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Vance Lee Prigge Foundation at a glance

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Vance Lee Prigge Foundation

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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Animals$13kRecreation & Sports$11kHealth$7kReligion$5kPhilanthropy$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF OXBOW$10,000
BYRON BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
ECHO CHURCH$3,500
FOOLS FIVE ROAD RACE$3,500
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$2,500
CHANNEL ONE REGIONAL FOOD BANK$2,500
STAGES THEATRE COMPANY$2,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,500
LILY'S PAD$2,500
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA$2,500
PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
FOLDS OF HONOR MINNESOTA CHAPTER$2,500
BYRON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION$1,500
MN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$1,000
CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH$1,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PETERS MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 8%BYRON BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 9%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

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
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…

Animals
5
Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota

Ignite the natural curiousity of every child through the power of play in a dynamic, awe-inspiring environment.

Arts & Culture
6
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
7
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
10
Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc

Prairie Public Broadcasting provides quality radio, television, and public media services that educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region.

Arts & Culture
11
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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12
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Channel One Inc; the most unlike its peers is Byron Basketball Association 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF OXBOW: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OXBOWFOOLS FIVE ROAD RACE: $4,500 · OtherFOOLS FIVE ROAD RACEECHO CHURCH: $3,500 · OtherECHO CHURCHAMERICAN RED CROSS: $2,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $2,500 · OtherSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INCBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $2,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTAFOLDS OF HONOR MINNESOTA CHAPTER: $2,500 · OtherFOLDS OF HONOR MINNESOTA CHAPTERBYRON YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · Other+8 more: $7,500 · Other+8 moreByron Basketball Association Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesByron Baske…PETERS MEMORIAL FUND: $1,000 · Human ServicesPETERS MEMO…Lilys Pad: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCHANNEL ONE INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionTHE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Public BenefitPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 · Animals
Other$37,000Human Services$6,000Youth Development$4,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,500Public Benefit$2,500Animals$2,500

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 budgetFRIENDS OF OXBOW: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLilys Pad: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 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.

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.

Rochester Area Founda…Mightycause Charitabl…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rochester Area FoundationMN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Vance Lee Prigge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vance Lee Prigge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 23 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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