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The Pergo Foundation at a glance

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The Pergo Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$237k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
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
SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$3,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONWESTERN GOLF ASSN$2,500
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$2,500
MCCALLUM THEATRE$2,500
KOMEN FOR THE CURE$1,000
THE MUSIC CENTER-PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LA$1,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$500
YOUTHENTITY$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $77k → 10%MCCALLUM THEATRE: $3k → 11%THE MUSIC CENTER-PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LA: $1k → 14%AMERICA'S VETDOGS: $50 → 7%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $500 → 14%SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%YOUTHENTITY: $500 → 6%ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $3k → 7%EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONWESTERN GOLF ASSN: $3k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES: $300 → 11%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: $250 → 14%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $300 → 6%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%USC WESTSIDE CENTER FOR DIABETES: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
12
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prostate Cancer Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Soulsville Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS SCHOLARSHIP GRANTSCONTRIBUT: $65,375 · OtherVARIOUS SCHOLARSHIP GRANTSCONTRIBUTUSC WESTSIDE CENTER FOR DIABETES: $50,000 · OtherUSC WESTSIDE CENTER FOR DIABETESUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES+5 more: $7,500 · Other+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $76,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA+1 more: $500 · EducationSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $250 · Arts & CulturePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $3,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $300 · EnvironmentCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN: $300 · Public BenefitAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $50 · Public Benefit
Other$137,875Education$82,300Arts & Culture$5,250Philanthropy$5,000Environment$3,300Health$2,500Public Benefit$350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $76,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHENTITY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pergo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pergo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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