The Pergo Foundation
Basalt, CO · EIN 85-4391566. Reported 80 grants totalling $379,660 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Pergo Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $300 and $3,500; the smallest was $50 and the largest $76,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $166,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mccallum Theatre | Palm Desert, CA | $14,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Roaring Fork Conservancy | Basalt, CO | $13,260 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Spinal Restoration | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The UCLA Foundatioin | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palm Springs Friends Philharmonic | Palm Desert, CA | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Prostate Cancer Fund | Santa Monica, CA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Concern Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $7,159 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Village for Vets | Los Angeles, CA | $7,021 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Aspen Animal Shelter | Aspen, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Steadman Phillipon Research Institute | Vail, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harvard Westlake | Studio City, CA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Palm Springs Friends of the Philharmonic | Palm Desert, CA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chabad of Melrose | Los Angeles, CA | $3,258 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of Aspen Animal Shelter | Aspen, CO | $2,588 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cancer Support Community Greater St Louis | St Louis, MO | $2,515 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $1,538 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| To Return | Basalt, CO | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Youth Entity | Carbondale, CO | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Colorado State Firefighters Foundation | Brush, CO | $1,108 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| BABY2BABY | Los Angeles, CA | $1,030 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,024 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emergency Network La | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Jacksonville, FL | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Challenge Aspen | Snowmass Village, CO | $933 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | Aspen, CO | $900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | Denver, CO | $512 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Park Foundation | Washington, DC | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Save the Redwoods League | San Francisco, CA | $406 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Basalt Lions Club | Basalt, CO | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Integrated Learning Institute | Palm Desert, CA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Basalt Education Foundation | Basalt, CO | $103 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mountain Lion Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $103 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| PBS Socal | Costa Mesa, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Art Base | Basalt, CO | $52 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State Parks Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
23 of 42 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 54%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- University of California Berkeley Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION - University of Southern California
TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - Wesleyan University
TO SUPPORT WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY - University of California Los Angeles
TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES - Foundation for Spinal Restoration
TO SUPPORT THE FOUNDATION FOR SPINAL RESTORATION - The UCLA Foundatioin
TO SUPPORT THE UCLA FOUNDATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 54 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $132,007 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $101,264 | $1,004 |
| 2023 | 23 | $113,561 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 13 | $32,828 | $1,030 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 78% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Pergo Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 856 Frying Pan Road, Basalt, CO, 81621. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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