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Vermilion Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2021
14
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Arts & Culture$21kHealth$15kEducation$12kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$5kMembership Benefit$5kYouth Development$2kRecreation & Sports$250
02FY2021 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LENOX HILL HOSPITAL$9,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$3,500
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$1,500
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK$1,000
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$1,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$500
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$500
CHANNEL 13$500
AUXILIARY OF LENOX HILL HOSPITAL$500
RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN$250
COLORADO COLLEGE$250
CHARLEY'S FUND$250
CITY OF HOPE$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FSH SOCIETY: $250 → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 9%CHANNEL 13: $500 → 14%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $2k → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $2k → 28%FIRST BOOK: $510 → 14%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 9%CHANNEL 13: $500 → 14%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $1k → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 28%CHANNEL 13: $500 → 14%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 28%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 28%RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%LENOX HILL HOSPITAL: $9k → 17%LENOX HILL HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%LENOX HILL HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%ACTORS FUND: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%ACTORS FUND: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%ACTORS FUND: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $600 → 17%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%AUXILIARY OF LENOX HILL HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%THE SPENCE SCHOOL: $500 → 17%NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $500 → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $500 → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $500 → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $500 → 17%CARING KIND: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$60k · 11 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$60k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+51%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyMembership BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LH
    Lenox Hill Hospital
    3× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +75%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +39%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $600 · revenue +51%
  • FB
    FIRST BOOK
    one grant, 2020 · $510 · revenue -27%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
2
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
12
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carnegie Hall Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Northside Center for Child Development 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $16,000 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTSCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK — $6,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF NEW YORKWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $3,000 · OtherWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGECHANNEL 13 — $1,500 · OtherCHANNEL 13+2 more — $750 · OtherLenox Hill Hospital — $12,000 · HealthLenox Hill HospitalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $500 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Health+2 more — $500 · HealthRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $4,500 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNT…COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $2,500 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHO…FIRST BOOK — $510 · EducationFIRST BOOKTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $500 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHO…NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $500 · EducationNORTHSIDE CENTE…+1 more — $250 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $4,500 · Membership BenefitTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $600 · Arts & CultureRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,750 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$27,250Health$14,000Education$8,760Philanthropy$5,000Membership Benefit$4,500Arts & Culture$3,600Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLenox Hill Hospital — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFSHD SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Vermilion Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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