· Private foundation
Erik & Dorrit Pfau Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $51,750 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $51,750 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $51,725 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $51,725 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $43,100 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $25,875 |
| COVENANT HOUSE - NEW YORK | $25,875 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $25,450 |
| XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $17,300 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $17,250 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $17,250 |
| CARMEL OF THE HOLY FAMILY | $17,250 |
| HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $17,250 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT | $17,250 |
| GRACE CHURCH OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $17,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND7× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +49%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +38%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MDMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +90%- SJST JUDE HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TISBURY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Erik & Dorrit Pfau Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erik & Dorrit Pfau Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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