Gvngorg
Beverly Hills, CA · EIN 81-2446261. Reported 52 grants totalling $2,729,325 to 47 organizations across tax years 2019-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Gvngorg, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy support organization (NTEE T19).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 5 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,067. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $39,437; the smallest was $6,280 and the largest $492,149. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Charles Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $492,149 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Support and Feed Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Empowerment Mission Inc | Doral, FL | $219,725 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Trees for the Future Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $162,705 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Hear Me Out | Long Beach, CA | $146,012 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Swaniti Initiative | Houston, TX | $130,443 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rise Education System | San Jose, CA | $124,287 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Healing Emergency Aid Response Team- 9 11 Inc | Monmouth Bch, NJ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Gvngorg | Beverly Hills, CA | $89,463 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $89,437 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Peace Latin America Inc | Miami, FL | $79,304 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Andrews School of Boca Raton Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $52,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Church World Service Inc | Elkhart, IN | $35,517 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Strake Jesuit | Houston, TX | $35,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The California Wildlife Center | Calabasas, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Giving Back Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $29,546 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rainforest Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $27,515 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountains Restoration Trust | Calabasas, CA | $27,040 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Strong Women Alliance | Playa Vista, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Houston Catholic High School | Spring, TX | $23,636 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carbon Removal Institute | Brooklyn, NY | $20,067 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | Boston, MA | $20,067 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Americus, GA | $17,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mountain and Sea Educational Adventures | Naples, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Nature Trust of the Santa Monica Mountains | Malibu, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Chick Mission | New York, NY | $14,560 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Lee & Hendry Counties Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tdd Supportive Living | Los Angeles, CA | $12,392 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Strake Jesuit Foundation | Houston, TX | $11,983 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Justice Center | New York, NY | $11,662 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $10,439 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Heart Ranch | Malibu, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| The Green Turtle Cay Foundation | Leesburg, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United in Harmony | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Kids Listen Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $9,770 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Carbon Removal | Washington, DC | $9,149 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corp | Boston, MA | $9,037 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beth Jacob Congregation | Beverly Hills, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elija Foundation Inc | Levittown, NY | $8,033 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Malibu United Methodist Church | Malibu, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| St Anne Catholic High School | Tomball, TX | $7,752 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Support and Feed Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $7,389 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Homeless Health Care Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $6,422 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| L a Works Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $6,422 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The H E Art Project | Los Angeles, CA | $6,422 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girls Prep Inc | Elkridge, MD | $6,280 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
4 of 47 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 6 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10 | $387,745 | $15,000 |
| 2020 | 5 | $389,299 | $35,517 |
| 2021 | 6 | $627,900 | $32,323 |
| 2022 | 7 | $602,667 | $17,600 |
| 2023 | 10 | $219,039 | $11,798 |
| 2024 | 14 | $502,675 | $20,067 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
55% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,067 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Gvngorg's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2019-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 369 S Doheny Drive 250, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211.
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