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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.

$101k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Vigneron Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$101k15%
FY202420$130k35%
FY202323$134k100%
FY202015$75kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$188kHuman Services$82kEducation$40kRecreation & Sports$30kArts & Culture$27kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$15kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vigneron Memorial Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetM S Dream Center Ri Inc: $42,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHeather Abbott Foundation: $39,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSargent Rehabilitation Center Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Providence: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics Rhode Island Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Providence Young Mens Christian Association: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Food Pantry: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetProvidence Children's Museum: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFrank Olean Center Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Service of Rhode Island Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAls United Rhode Island: $11,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetA Wish Come True Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJ Arthur Trudeau Memorial Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeeting Street: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIn-Sight: $8,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Groden Center Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Rhode Island Volunteers: $7,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLooking Upwards Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Friend and Service: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLucy's Hearth: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFour Hearts Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget134 Collaborative: $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHorace Mann Educational Associates Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Rhode Island: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Ri Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Autism Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaterfire Providence: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRefocus Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 31.

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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 Rhode Island Community FoundationRI54.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Vigneron Memorial Fund

How much does Vigneron Memorial Fund give?
Vigneron Memorial Fund reported 13 grants totaling $101,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Vigneron Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (12%), Education (6%).
Who are Vigneron Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: M S Dream Center Ri Inc ($42k), Heather Abbott Foundation ($39k), Sargent Rehabilitation Center Inc ($35k).
Does Vigneron Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vigneron Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vigneron Memorial Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
Where is Vigneron Memorial Fund based?
Vigneron Memorial Fund is based in TX.

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 47 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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