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Vergel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$533k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$595kEducation$166kAnimals$70kHuman Services$50kReligion$45kFood & Nutrition$20kCivil Rights$13kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALLET SOCIETY INC$125,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$100,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$60,000
DISCALCED INC$50,000
LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM$25,000
THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND$20,000
VARIOUS$19,870
CONGREGATION BNAI OLAM NEW YORK$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
LAMBDA LEGAL$12,500
ROTHKO CHAPEL$10,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$10,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$10,000
DOMINICAN WOMENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOROT INC: $5k → 17%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

NY
MA
OH
CA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$732k · 16 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$732k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionReligionInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +52%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +45%
  • DI
    DISCALCED INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • MO
    Metropolitan Opera
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • GA
    Grey Art Gallery New York Universit
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • GO
    Glyndebourne Opera
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
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 Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
8
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
9
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
10
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
12
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carnegie Hall Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Scandinavian Seminar. 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

28 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. 28 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALLET SOCIETY INC: $125,000 · OtherBALLET SOCIETY INCDominican Womens Development Center Inc: $44,077 · OtherDominican Womens Development Center IncDiane Fossey Gorilla Fund Internati: $40,000 · OtherDiane Fossey Gorilla Fund InternatiVARIOUS: $37,370 · OtherVARIOUSMetropolitan Opera: $36,000 · OtherMetropolitan OperaDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $30,000 · OtherDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International IncLESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI OLAM NEW YORK: $25,000 · OtherGrey Art Gallery New York Universit: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $78,120 · Other+18 moreNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCDISCALCED INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureDISCALCED INCWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC+11 more: $47,555 · Arts & Culture+11 moreNew York University: $165,000 · EducationNew York Universi…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionRothko Chapel: $20,000 · ReligionLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $12,500 · Civil RightsDOROT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSCANDINAVIAN SEMINAR: $5,000 · International
Other$480,567Arts & Culture$352,555Education$166,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$20,000Civil Rights$12,500Human Services$5,000International$5,000

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 budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $165,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDominican Womens Development Center Inc: $44,077 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRothko Chapel: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARGEMUSIC LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCANDINAVIAN SEMINAR: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $3,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN HALL FOUNDATION INC: $555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $500 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Vergel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vergel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Vergel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vergel 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 50 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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