· Private foundation
Vigneron Memorial Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS DREAM CENTER OF RI INC | $20,000 |
| HEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ALS UNITED RHODE ISLAND | $11,000 |
| GREATER PROVIDENCE YMCA | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS RI INC | $9,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| LOOKING UPWARDS INC | $6,000 |
| THE GRODEN CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| IN-SIGHT FOR THE BLIND | $3,500 |
| EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| FRANK OLEAN CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HAHEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $39k · revenue +31%
- FOFRANK OLEAN CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +12%
FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SRSARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +48%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCEone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -17%
J ARTHUR TRUDEAU MEMORIAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
To provide day and residential programs for treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities to clients within the rhode island area.
The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…
Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…
We are peer professionals on a mission to help rhode islanders of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds get the support they need to thrive.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
To respect all older adults by hearing their voice, healing their hearts, building community, and delivering exceptional and equitable healthcare.
Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Looking Upwards Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds M S DREAM CENTER RI INC ↗
- Who funds HEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FRANK OLEAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds A WISH COME TRUE INC ↗
- Who funds J ARTHUR TRUDEAU MEMORIAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE GRODEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds LOOKING UPWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds Four Hearts Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds 134 Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · The Beacon Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · John D & K a Johnston Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vigneron Memorial Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.