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VertueLab

VertueLab (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,642,354 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($850,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
20
Funders on record
$2.6M
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
9/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

VertueLab holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 165 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 50 ($1.7M) Expenses 51 ($1.7M) Net assets 86 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 68 ($2.4M) Expenses 54 ($1.8M) Net assets 119 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 67 ($2.3M) Expenses 46 ($1.5M) Net assets 161 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 82 ($2.8M) Expenses 58 ($1.9M) Net assets 213 ($4.1M)2023 Revenue 64 ($2.2M) Expenses 94 ($3.1M) Net assets 169 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 50 ($1.7M) Expenses 82 ($2.7M) Net assets 126 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 58 ($2.0M) Expenses 64 ($2.1M) Net assets 121 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (58)Expenses (64)Net assets (121)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 91% · 2019 89% · 2020 72% · 2021 68% · 2022 53% · 2023 84% · 2024 59% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of VertueLab’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 500 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$200k
17
$56k
19
$623k
20
$817k
21
$944k
22
$849k
23
$958k
24
$104k
25
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $8k → $730k.

8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of VertueLab’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

VertueLab has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund VertueLab.

32%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 66% · 2022 35% · 2023 34%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of VertueLab's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

VertueLab draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 5 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
OR
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding VertueLab receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.

Federal$3.0M
grants $3.0Mcontracts $8k
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Top agencies
  • Small Business Administration$1.2M
  • Department of Energy$1.0M
  • Department of Commerce$800k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like VertueLab

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oregon

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 12%Fundraising 13%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Vertuelab Climate Impact Fund I · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VertueLab: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds VertueLab?
VertueLab (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,642,354 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($850,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VertueLab have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,642,354 in grants to VertueLab, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VertueLab?
Woka Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VertueLab find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing