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Vegari Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$144kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kHealth$18kHuman Services$13kArts & Culture$11kHousing & Shelter$8kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$852k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION - USO$1,850
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,750
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,500
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,000
PHILLY HOUSE$850
PHILABUNDANCE$850
WHYY$750
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$750
COALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES$500
UNICEF$500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$500
LOWER MERION POLICE DEPARTMENT$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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELDER NET OF LOWER MERION-NARBERTH: $400 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $700 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $500 → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $150 → 22%PHILLY HOUSE: $2k → 22%PHILLY HOUSE: $2k → 22%SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 22%SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 22%PHILLY HOUSE: $850 → 22%SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $850 → 22%SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $600 → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
HI
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 43 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
14

Total granted

$138k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +98%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +76%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN-IRANIAN COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $115k · 91% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -83%
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.

04Its 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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
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
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
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 Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
12
Parenteral Drug Association Inc

To develop scientifically sound, practical technical information and resources to advance science and regulation for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry through the expertise of our global membership.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American-Iranian Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 63 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN-IRANIAN COUNCIL INC: $115,000 · OtherAMERICAN-IRANIAN COUNCIL INCAMERICAN RED CROSS: $10,350 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,000 · Other+37 more: $54,916 · Other+37 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,950 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,940 · InternationalUNITED STATES FU…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,800 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…Save The Children Federation Inc: $3,350 · InternationalSave The Childre…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,204 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - T…International Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · InternationalInternational Re…RAINFOREST TRUST: $1,500 · InternationalLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthLANKENAU …THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,550 · HealthTHE CHILD…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,850 · HealthAMERICAN …SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $9,327 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,050 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $650 · Human Services+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesPhilabundance: $7,800 · Food & NutritionRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $500 · Food & NutritionTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $530 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationWHYY INC: $2,650 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,050 · Arts & CultureCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $1,800 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $390 · Arts & Culture
Other$187,266International$42,744Health$24,400Human Services$13,427Food & Nutrition$8,300Education$8,030Arts & Culture$6,890

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 budgetAMERICAN-IRANIAN COUNCIL INC: $115,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,940 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $9,327 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $7,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $4,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,204 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $2,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MERION FIRE COMPANY: $1,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA READS INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON RESCUE SQUAD INC: $600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Police Assistance Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN-IRANIAN COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MERION FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA READS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗

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.

Aetna Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aetna Foundation IncCT11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 63 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home