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The Vervane Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$956k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
79%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$7.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 79% of the organizations The Vervane Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationArts & 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
FY2024still arriving16$956k38%
FY202314$1.6M79%
FY20226$962k17%
FY20219$1.4M44%
FY202016$595k100%
FY201714$575kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.7MArts & Culture$805kFood & Nutrition$695kEducation$382kCivil Rights$288kCommunity Improvement$254kInternational$200kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MN
NY
MA
SD
IA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
NM
DC
OK
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Land Trust Alliance Inc$1,499,49343%
Pawnee Seed Preservation Society Inc$400,000267%
Grist Magazine Inc$240,00021%
Kindle Project$200,00022%
Colorado Plateau Foundation$200,00027%
Na'ah Illahee Fund$200,00023%
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation$200,00026%
Project South Inc$100,00011%
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission$100,0001n/a
First Peoples Fund$100,00022%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The Vervane Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Land Trust Alliance Inc$1,499,49343%
Pawnee Seed Preservation Society Inc$400,000267%
Grist Magazine Inc$240,00021%
Kindle Project$200,00022%
Colorado Plateau Foundation$200,00027%
Na'ah Illahee Fund$200,00023%
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation$200,00026%
Project South Inc$100,00011%
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission$100,0001n/a
First Peoples Fund$100,00022%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke$100,00012%
The Lakota Fund Incorporated$100,00021%
Ndn Collective Inc$70,00010%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$62,08241%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$52,50021%
Ct League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$50,0001n/a
Yale University$50,0001n/a
The Common School Inc$50,00012%
Northeast Native Network of Kinship And$50,00015%
Yale University$42,0001n/a
Seed Savers Exchange Inc$25,00010%
United Way of Greenwich Inc$25,00011%
Sarah Lawrence College$25,00010%
Stewardship Utah Foundation$25,00010%
The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre$25,00010%
The Trust for Public Land$20,00010%
Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc$15,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$15,00010%
Domus Kids Inc$12,50010%
Building One Community Corp$12,50010%
Resource Generation Inc$10,00011%
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc$10,00010%
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc$5,00011%
The Working World Inc$2,97020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Vervane Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLand Trust Alliance Inc: $1,499,493 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPawnee Seed Preservation Society Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $240,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKindle Project: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetColorado Plateau Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $200,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetProject South Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFirst Peoples Fund: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEkvnv Yefolecvlke: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Lakota Fund Incorporated: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNdn Collective Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Grantmakers Association: $62,082 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSeventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc: $52,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Common School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNortheast Native Network of Kinship And: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSeed Savers Exchange Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greenwich Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSarah Lawrence College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStewardship Utah Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield Partners for Community Action Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDomus Kids Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding One Community Corp: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetResource Generation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Working World Inc: $2,970 over 2y, 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 30.

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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.

Rsf Social Finance IncImpactassetsincCommon Counsel Founda…Seventh Generation Fu…Amalgamated Charitabl…Ndn Collective IncNovo FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationFirst Nations Develop…The Schmidt Family Fo…Cedar Tree Foundation
Rsf Social Finance IncCA33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Common Counsel Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · Novo Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Cedar Tree 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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Find your warmest path to The Vervane Foundation Inc 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 Vervane Foundation Inc

How much does The Vervane Foundation Inc give?
The Vervane Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $956,353 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Vervane Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Philanthropy (25%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are The Vervane Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Land Trust Alliance Inc ($1.5M), Pawnee Seed Preservation Society Inc ($400k), Grist Magazine Inc ($240k).
Does The Vervane Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Vervane Foundation Inc 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 The Vervane Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Impactassetsinc, Common Counsel Foundation.
Where is The Vervane Foundation Inc based?
The Vervane Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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