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Vernon Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Vernon Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

International$10kPhilanthropy$6kMembership Benefit$1kHuman Services$540Animals$360Civil Rights$360Food & Nutrition$180Religion$180Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$720
Median grant
5
States reached
$243k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ$1,800
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$1,800
American Friends of Magen David Adom$1,800
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia$1,080
StandWithUs$720
American Friends of Unit 669$540
Birthright Israel Foundation$540
Hebrew Free Burial Association$540
Students Supporting Israel Movement$360
Israeli Guide Dog Center USA$360
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $540) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American Friends of Unit 669: $540 → 4%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

MN
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 34% of Vernon Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 5%.

Vernon Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 4 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$9k
$614

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • BK
    Bobrow Kosher Food Pantry by Oheb Shalom Congregation
    one grant, 2024 · $180
  • KR
    Kol Rina Independent Minyan
    one grant, 2024 · $180
  • ID
    ISRAELI DANCE INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $54 · revenue +7%
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
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc

The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.

—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Israel Kuzminsky Memorial Foundation
—
6
University of Judaism Foundation
—
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
9
The Jerusalem Connection
—
10
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Jewish Life Foundation
—
12
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 18 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,080 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,080 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INCISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $720 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $3,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METRO…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,160 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA…CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $1,080 · OtherCHEBRA AGUDAS…Students Supporting Israel Movement: $360 · OtherStudents Supp…Israeli Guide Dog Center USA: $360 · OtherIsraeli Guide…Bobrow Kosher Food Pantry by Oheb Shalom Congregation: $180 · OtherBobrow Kosher…Kol Rina Independent Minyan: $180 · OtherKol Rina Inde…+1 more: $50 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $540 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 · HealthISRAELI DANCE INSTITUTE INC: $54 · Arts & CultureWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50 · Environment
International$10,080Philanthropy$5,760Other$2,210Human Services$540Health$100Arts & Culture$54Environment$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $1,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAELI DANCE INSTITUTE INC: $54 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vernon Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vernon Family Foundation Inc. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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