California · Private foundation
Vernon Family 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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Vernon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $274k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $255k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $260k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $228k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $260k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $130k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $206k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $201k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Youth Organization | $615,000 | 8 | 30% |
| American Friends of Maru a Pula School | $200,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Donorschooseorg | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia | $155,030 | 6 | 1% |
| Heights Philadelphia | $73,175 | 3 | 0% |
| Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mattie N Dixon Community Cupboard Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Public School of Germantown | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($278k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vernon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Horizon Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Lennox Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Vernon Family Foundation
- How much does Vernon Family Foundation give?
- Vernon Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $275,080 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Vernon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Education (30%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Vernon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Philadelphia Youth Organization ($615k), American Friends of Maru a Pula School ($200k), Donorschooseorg ($185k).
- Does Vernon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vernon Family 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 Vernon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Horizon Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Vernon Family Foundation based?
- Vernon Family Foundation is based in CA.
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