Grapevine Giving Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872389502
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9173455544
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,282,691
- Expenses
- $9,920,225
- Assets
- $3,430,823
- Liabilities
- $101,455
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Emily Rasmussen (DIRECTOR/FOUNDER/president)
Highest reported compensation
- JONAthan NIGH (director): $19,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through the activities described above, grapevine giving foundation will help people make more of a difference together with products and services that support collective impact accross the arts, education, community, environment and more.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our mission is to democratize philanthropy by making giving simple, dynamic, connected and joyful. Through the activities described above, grapevine giving foundation will help people make more of a difference together with products and services that support collective impact accross the arts, education, community, environment and more. We connect people and grow the greater good by increasing charitable activities in the areas of arts, education, community, environment and more as well as other charities that support causes and represent the philanthropic wishes and geographic regions of donors of grapevine giving foundation. Grapevine giving foundation seeks to revolutionize philanthropy through the power of collective giving. Grapevine giving foundation facilitates charitable donations, offers tax receipts, and provides additional philanthropic resources like seed funding and donation matching to giving circles. In this way, grapevine giving foundation is growing and propelling the giving circle movement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $476.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 67.3%; rating input score 67; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $19K · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $601K reported
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 518 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 516 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.