· Private foundation
Ver-Nel Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY | $10,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN UNION COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY | $1,258 |
| ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,258 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE3× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +69%
- TUTuskegee University3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +42%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FVFORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +38%
- SUSOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Fgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +555%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Organization's mission: peirce college empowers adult learners to improve their lives by achieving career goals through academic offerings aligned with evolving workforce needs.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE F ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Talladega College ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Simpson Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Allyrae Wallace Educational Trust · Southern Company Charitable Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ver-Nel Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ver-Nel Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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