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Chris and Liz Pascale Family 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$514
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 18
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$166k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationCivil RightsOther
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 arriving19$29k37%
FY202416$10k25%
FY202318$13k67%
FY202213$17k38%
FY202112$29k83%
FY202012$10k75%
FY20196$18kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$33kReligion$32kRecreation & Sports$21kHealth$17kArts & Culture$5kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Johns Catholic Church$31,5007n/a
San Diego Rugby Alumni Association$20,02045%
University of San Diego$19,46070%
Miracle House Foundation$5,00011%
American Heart Association Inc$2,50010%
Casa del Mar Inc$2,26430%
Esm Foundation Inc$2,0002n/a
The Honor Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc$1,00010%
Voices for Children$75010%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Johns Catholic Church$31,5007n/a
San Diego Rugby Alumni Association$20,02045%
University of San Diego$19,46070%
Miracle House Foundation$5,00011%
American Heart Association Inc$2,50010%
Casa del Mar Inc$2,26430%
Esm Foundation Inc$2,0002n/a
The Honor Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc$1,00010%
Voices for Children$75010%
Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc$71020%
Curebound$62030%
2b-Rad$54611%
The Tennessee Pku Foundation$50012%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$5001n/a
Feeding San Diego$41240%
The Dynamic Catholic Institute$34030%
Emilio Nares Foundation$27310%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$25010%
Best Buddies International Inc$20610%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County Inc$20610%
Brother Benno Foundation Inc$11010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$10610%
Girlfriends Care Inc$1001n/a
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society$1001n/a
Build a Miracle$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Diego Rugby Alumni Association: $20,020 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $19,460 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMiracle House Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa del Mar Inc: $2,264 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Honor Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoices for Children: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCurebound: $620 over 3y, 0.0% of budget2b-Rad: $546 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Tennessee Pku Foundation: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFeeding San Diego: $412 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dynamic Catholic Institute: $340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County Inc: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Benno Foundation Inc: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuild a Miracle: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 21.

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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.

Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Country Friends · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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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Find your warmest path to Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation

How much does Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation give?
Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $28,649 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Religion (26%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
Who are Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Johns Catholic Church ($32k), San Diego Rugby Alumni Association ($20k), University of San Diego ($19k).
Does Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Chris and Liz Pascale Family 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 Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, The Country Friends, David C Copley Foundation.
Where is Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation based?
Chris and Liz Pascale Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 53 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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