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Venture Global Engineering Foundation

Provide local and regional non-profit charities and organizations with funds for sustainability and growth

$345k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $313,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $345,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,085 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BELIEVE FOUNDATION$120,000
WEST POINT SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN$40,000
STEVENSON HIGH SCHOOL BAND$38,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$35,000
ROMEO HIGH SCHOOL BAND$25,000
LEONARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$14,000
THE CASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC$12,000
LAPEER AREA CITIZENS AGAINST DOMESTIC ASSAULT (LACADA)$12,000
DRYDEN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS$12,000
MOJO IN THE MORNING'S BREAKING AND ENTERING$5,000
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 (FY19–19, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LAPEER AREA CITIZENS AGAINST DOMESTIC ASSAULT (LACADA): $12k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$688k · 5 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$688k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+99%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthEducationPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BF
    BELIEVE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $378k · 90% of their budget
  • SB
    STEVENSON BAND BOOSTER CLUB INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $88k · revenue -55% · 64% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • RJ
    ROBERT J ALL II MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +99%
  • IC
    IMLAY CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Cass County Cancer Service

To serve cancer patients in Cass County Michigan.

Health
2
Woodhaven Band Boosters

The Woodhaven Bands seek to help students become cultural citizens, leaders and lifelong lovers of music in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Community Improvement
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Grosse Pointe North Athletic Booster Club

Support Athletes at Grosse Pointe North High School

Education
5
Taking a Shot At Breast Cancer

The mission of taking a shot at breast cancer is to provide support for breast cancer screening, treatment, education, or related initiatives for breast cancer patients receiving treatment in saint clair county, michigan.

Health
6
Haslett Band Boosters

Support of Haslett Band Students

Education
7
Leelanau County Cancer Foundation

To improve quality of life for qualified Leelanau County residents and their families who are being impacted by Cancer.

Human Services
8
Livonia Franklin Band Boosters

Support the music programs at Livonia Franklin High School

Human Services
9
Michigan Shooting Centers Foundation
Education
10
Warren Mott Booster Club

Raise funds for students at Warren Mott High School

Education
11
Taylor Steele Cancer Foundation
Health
12
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Believe Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $377,500 · HealthBELIEVE FOUNDATIONTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $80,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIESROMEO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2018: $80,000 · OtherROMEO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS O…NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $35,000 · OtherNEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FA…ROBERT J ALL II MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherROBERT J ALL II MEMORIAL …IMLAY CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $20,000 · OtherIMLAY CITY COMMUNITY SCHO…LEONARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $14,000 · OtherLEONARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL…DRYDEN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $12,000 · OtherDRYDEN ATHLETIC BOOSTERSCHIPPEWA VALLEY SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherSTEVENSON BAND BOOSTER CLUB INC: $88,000 · EducationSTEVENSON BA…Lanse Creuse High School Band Boosters: $10,000 · EducationLanse Creuse…WEST POINT SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $62,000 · PhilanthropyWEST POINT…CASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyCASSIE HIN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $25,000 · ReligionLAPEER AREA CITIZENS AGAINST DOMESTIC ASSAULT: $12,000 · Human ServicesMOJO IN THE MORNING BREAKING AND ENTERING: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Health$457,500Other$201,000Education$98,000Philanthropy$84,000Religion$25,000Human Services$12,000Community Improvement$5,000

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 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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOJO IN THE MORNING BREAKING AND ENTERING: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

DTE Energy FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Venture Global Engineering Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Venture Global Engineering Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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