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Verhagen Foundation

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.

$151k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
13
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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100% of Verhagen Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Verhagen Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $151k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’21
7
’22
2
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$30,500
Organizations funded a year
13 to 16
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Verhagen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202213$151k0%
FY202116$161kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.9MFood & Nutrition$81kHuman Services$75kEducation$73kAnimals$62kHousing & Shelter$25kEnvironment$15kEmployment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Verhagen Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lowcountry Food Bank Inc$66,00030%
Pet Helpers Inc$50,00021%
Nokuse Education Inc$15,00011%
Star Gospel Mission$15,0002n/a
Meals on Wheels Inc$15,00020%
Landmarks for Families Inc$10,00020%
Charleston Animal Society$10,00020%
Takeoff Institute Inc$5,00014%
My Sister's House Inc$5,00010%
Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired South Carolina$2,00020%
Healing Farm Ministries$50010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Verhagen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLowcountry Food Bank Inc: $66,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPet Helpers Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNokuse Education Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Animal Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTakeoff Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation for the Blind and Visually Impaired South Carolina: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Farm Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 10.

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Patrick Family Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Verhagen Foundation

How much does Verhagen Foundation give?
Verhagen Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $151,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Verhagen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (90%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Human Services (2%).
Who are Verhagen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Lowcountry Food Bank Inc ($66k), Pet Helpers Inc ($50k), Nokuse Education Inc ($15k).
Does Verhagen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Verhagen Foundation 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 Verhagen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, Patrick Family Foundation.
Where is Verhagen Foundation based?
Verhagen Foundation is based in SC.

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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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