· Public charity
Vigran Family Foundation Inc
The vigran family foundation supports the charitable purposes of the wayne county indiana foundation and especially those advancing theater and the arts, higher education, healthcare and jewish causes.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Vigran Family Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Wayne County Indiana Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Vigran Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF WHITEWATER VALLEY | $7,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CINCINNATI | $7,500 |
| BETH BORUK TEMPLE | $5,250 |
| RICHMOND CIVIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF WHITEWATER VALLEY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $46k · revenue -68%
- RCRICHMOND CIVIC THEATRE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +39%
- RJRICHMOND JEWISH CONGREGATION BETH BORUK TEMPLE4× · 2017–2023 · $22k
Funded once
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnatigraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +58%
- ECEarlham College Incone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +19%
- GCGATEWAY CHURCH OF RICHMOND INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: First Bank Richmond Inc Community Foundation · Wayne County Indiana Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vigran Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vigran Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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