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Viener Foundation Inc

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
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 2025.

Philanthropy$25kEducation$13kHealth$12kEnvironment$6kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1kAnimals$1kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$278k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Italian Cancer Foundation$5,000
Florida Oceanographic Society$2,750
Colby College$2,000
St Christophers School$1,000
Humane Society of the Treasure Coast$500
St Jude Children Research Hospital$500
Cancer Research Institute$250
Metropolitan Museum of Art$210
Safe Space$200
Hibiscus Childrens Center$195
The Frick Collection$150
Turning Point Donkey Rescue$100
Friends of the Martin County Library System$100
Yale University$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Safe Space: $200 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
TN
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 12 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$49k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +55%
  • MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +39%
  • FO
    FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MA
    MIDDLESEX ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PL
    PROJECT LIFT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +281%
  • SL
    Seal Legacy Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +28%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Art Association Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

29 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. 29 of the 37 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INCMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL F…The President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,000 · EducationThe President and Trustee…SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $600 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $500 · Education+2 more: $400 · EducationAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthAMERICAN-ITALIAN CAN…CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,400 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INST…SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $1,000 · HealthSKY HIGH FOR KIDS IN…+2 more: $200 · HealthMIDDLESEX ANNUAL FUND: $5,000 · OtherMIDDLESEX ANNUAL …The St Christophers Fund: $1,000 · OtherThe St Christophe…St Jude Children Research Hospital: $500 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $625 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF…HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $700 · OtherHIBISCUS CHILDREN…+15 more: $2,035 · Other+15 moreFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $5,850 · Science & TechFLORIDA OC…PROJECT LIFT INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $100 · Youth DevelopmentSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$20,000Education$14,000Health$11,600Other$9,860Science & Tech$5,850Youth Development$1,100Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $5,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MARTIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFESPACE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOXFIRE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Farm Dog Rescue Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100 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.

The Bauman Family Fou…The Community Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Baird Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for Good
The Bauman Family Foundation IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bauman Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Hibiscus Children's Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Washington Friends of Music Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Washington Art Association Incorporated: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Viener Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Viener Foundation Inc 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 37 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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