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The Pergo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,538
Largest grant, FY2025
$39,250
Organizations funded a year
20 to 24
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Pergo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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$62k46%
FY202422$156k14%
FY202320$172k35%
FY202224$194kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$514kHealth$35kArts & Culture$27kEnvironment$18kAnimals$8kPublic Benefit$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kReligion$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($316k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pergo Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of California Berkeley Foundation: $166,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWesleyan University: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Conservancy: $13,260 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Foundation for Spinal Restoration: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $7,159 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVillage for Vets: $7,021 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Support Community of Greater St Louis: $2,515 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouthentity: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado State Fire Fighters Foundation: $1,108 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDirect Relief: $1,024 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Aspen: $933 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Center for Environmental Studies: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $512 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Redwoods League: $406 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBasalt Education Foundation: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Lion Foundation: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Base: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $50 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 22.

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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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to The Pergo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pergo 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.

About The Pergo Foundation

How much does The Pergo Foundation give?
The Pergo Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $72,078 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does The Pergo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Health (6%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are The Pergo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: University of California Berkeley Foundation ($167k), Wesleyan University ($40k), Roaring Fork Conservancy ($13k).
Does The Pergo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pergo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Pergo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Pergo Foundation based?
The Pergo Foundation is based in CO.

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 43 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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