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Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation

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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,544
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,860
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$765k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$44k27%
FY202411$41k0%
FY20239$55k22%
FY202211$48k100%
FY20203$13kn/a
64% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$106kEnvironment$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CO
VA
DE
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New England Wildlife Center Inc$25,45140%
Operation Topcat$16,24347%
National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc$16,24340%
Rocky Mountain Raptor Program$11,24330%
For Our Friends Inc$9,54943%
Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio$8,8601n/a
Spay and Stay$7,04421%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest$5,75910%
Wharton County Stray Pet Outreach Team$3,50012%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew England Wildlife Center Inc: $25,451 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Topcat: $16,243 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetNational Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc: $16,243 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Raptor Program: $11,243 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFor Our Friends Inc: $9,549 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSpay and Stay: $7,044 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEnvironmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest: $5,759 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWharton County Stray Pet Outreach Team: $3,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation

How much does Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation give?
Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $44,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Environment (7%).
Who are Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New England Wildlife Center Inc ($25k), Operation Topcat ($16k), National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc ($16k).
Does Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation based?
Ch & Gf Pajeau Foundation is based in IL.

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 19 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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