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Venture Global Engineering Foundation

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$345k
Granted FY2019
10
Itemized grants FY2019
10
Organizations funded FY2019
60%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$313k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 60% of the organizations Venture Global Engineering Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

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PhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201910$313k60%
FY20187$282k57%
FY20176$278kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$518kEducation$149kPhilanthropy$84kArts & Culture$73kRecreation & Sports$22kScience & Tech$20kHuman Services$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Believe Foundation$377,500390%
Stevenson Band Booster Club Inc$88,000264%
The New Day Foundation for Families$80,00025%
Romeo High School Class of 2018$80,0003n/a
West Point Society of Michigan$62,000214%
New Day Foundation for Families$35,0001n/a
Robert J All II Memorial Foundation$30,0001n/a
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc$25,00010%
Imlay City Community Schools$20,0001n/a
Leonard Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization$14,0001n/a
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All grantees of Venture Global Engineering Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Believe Foundation$377,500390%
Stevenson Band Booster Club Inc$88,000264%
The New Day Foundation for Families$80,00025%
Romeo High School Class of 2018$80,0003n/a
West Point Society of Michigan$62,000214%
New Day Foundation for Families$35,0001n/a
Robert J All II Memorial Foundation$30,0001n/a
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc$25,00010%
Imlay City Community Schools$20,0001n/a
Leonard Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization$14,0001n/a
Dryden Athletic Boosters$12,000160%
Lapeer Area Citizens Against Domestic Assault$12,00012%
Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation Inc$12,0001n/a
Chippewa Valley Schools$10,0001n/a
Lanse Creuse High School Band Boosters$10,0001n/a
Mojo in the Morning Breaking and Entering$5,00013%

Where it is load-bearing

Venture Global Engineering Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBelieve Foundation: $377,500 over 3y, 90% of budgetStevenson Band Booster Club Inc: $88,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetThe New Day Foundation for Families: $80,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWest Point Society of Michigan: $62,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAmerican Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDryden Athletic Boosters: $12,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetLapeer Area Citizens Against Domestic Assault: $12,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMojo in the Morning Breaking and Entering: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

DTE Energy FoundationMI13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · 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.

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How do I get to Venture Global Engineering Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Venture Global Engineering 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.

About Venture Global Engineering Foundation

How much does Venture Global Engineering Foundation give?
Venture Global Engineering Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $313,000, out of $345,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Venture Global Engineering Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (59%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Venture Global Engineering Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Believe Foundation ($378k), Stevenson Band Booster Club Inc ($88k), The New Day Foundation for Families ($80k).
Does Venture Global Engineering Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Venture Global Engineering Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Venture Global Engineering Foundation based?
Venture Global Engineering Foundation is based in MI.

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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $8k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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