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· Private foundation
THE PERGO FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$237k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants
7
Communities
$77k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 19 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $192k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$76,800
- VARIOUS SCHOLARSHIP GRANTSCONTRIBUT$65,375
- USC WESTSIDE CENTER FOR DIABETES$50,000
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$15,000
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
- PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
- SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION$5,000
- ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$3,000
- CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$2,500
- MCCALLUM THEATRE$2,500
- EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONWESTERN GOLF ASSN$2,500
- THE MUSIC CENTER-PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LA$1,000
- KOMEN FOR THE CURE$1,000
- CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$500
- YOUTHENTITY$500
02The need
02
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 53% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
University of California Merced Foundation
The uc merced foundation was formed for the purpose of encouraging voluntary private gifts, trusts, and bequests for the benefit of the university of california, merced.
Education
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
Education
3
San Jose State University
The san jose state university research foundation is an auxiliary organization of san jose state university and the california state university system. the foundation's mission is to advance the welfare of the university and assist in…
Education
4
American Cancer Society Inc
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Health
5
Sarnoff Cardiovascular
To support the pursuit of careers in cardiovascular science.
Health
6
Cedars-Sinai Health System
To operate for the benefit of and to support specified nonprofit healthcare organizations.
Health
7
California State University
To promote the scientific, literary, educational, and charitable purposes of csula.
Education
8
California State University Foundation
The mission of the california state university foundation is to enhance the educational excellence of the california state university in teaching, learning, community service, and applied research.
Philanthropy
9
American Association for Cancer Research
Accelerates the conquest of cancer by funding scientific research, education and communication.
Health
10
California State University
Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.
Education
11
California Life Sciences Association
Advance ca life sciences ecosystem by advocating public policies & supporting businesses.
Community Improvement
12
Acmg Foundation for Genetic
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prostate Cancer Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$128,425Education$92,300Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Environment$3,300Health$2,500Public Benefit$50
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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTHENTITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS ↗
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.
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE PERGO FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841375379 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Pergo Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Pergo Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines