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Edgar E & Elizabeth S Pankey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.

Education$2.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MPublic Benefit$825kHuman Services$605kHealth$560kCivil Rights$480kArts & Culture$440kAnimals$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$30,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillsdale College$300,000
Cuesta College Foundation$250,000
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation$170,000
Linked Public Schools$150,000
Pacific Legal Foundation$120,000
Institute for Justice$100,000
Patriot Paws Service Dogs$100,000
Freedom Foundation$100,000
CO2 Coalition$100,000
Heartland Institute$100,000
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute$80,000
Reason Foundation$70,000
American Council on Science and Health$70,000
Young America's Foundation$70,000
California Policy Center$70,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $100k → 5%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $100k → 5%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $50k → 5%California Policy Center: $80k → 10%California Policy Center: $70k → 10%California Policy Center: $70k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
KS
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 45 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
5

Total granted

$6.5M
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +48%
  • NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $440k · revenue +58%
  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Mercy Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • BS
    Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • TL
    TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $39k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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3
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Tustin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterSchool District FoundationsYouth Development CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
24/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $600,000 · OtherHOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH — $260,000 · OtherAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTHLinked Public Schools — $250,000 · OtherLinked Public SchoolsFreedom Foundation — $210,000 · OtherFreedom FoundationYoung America's Foundation — $190,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationNew Life K9s — $150,000 · OtherCato — $150,000 · OtherBoy Scouts Las Padres Council — $120,000 · OtherCO2 COALITION — $170,000 · OtherK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $150,000 · Other+22 more — $1,082,000 · Other+22 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $590,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationCUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATI…THE REASON FOUNDATION — $270,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONCOTTEY COLLEGE — $70,000 · Education+6 more — $155,000 · Education+6 moreNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $440,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL RIG…Pacific Legal Foundation — $350,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Lega…+1 more — $20,000 · Crime & LegalPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $250,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PA…CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $220,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COM…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WA…THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE — $250,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $150,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $40,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $15,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $300,000 · Civil RightsMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Civil RightsCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $240,000 · Arts & CultureBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,332,000Education$1,585,000Crime & Legal$810,000Human Services$670,000Public Benefit$525,000Civil Rights$380,000Arts & Culture$290,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $590,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCUESTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $440,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $350,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $270,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH — $260,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $250,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $240,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $220,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $190,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCO2 COALITION — $170,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS — $80,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOTTEY COLLEGE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN — $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTUSTIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $50,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTUSTIN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKern High School District Educational Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kern Community Founda…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Lynde and Harry B…Donors Trust IncShell USA Company Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
Kern Community FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Edgar E & Elizabeth S Pankey Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Edgar E & Elizabeth S Pankey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edgar E & Elizabeth S Pankey 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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