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Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
57
Grants FY2024
54
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$325,000
Organizations funded a year
54 to 77
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2024still arriving57$1.2M7%
FY202354$883k15%
FY202277$867k21%
FY202163$683k32%
FY202057$694kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$943kHealth$484kYouth Development$363kArts & Culture$314kFood & Nutrition$285kReligion$170kEnvironment$158kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond$170,00052%
Communities in Schools$145,00050%
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Incorporated$133,00030%
St Andrew's School$130,00042%
Shalom Farmsinc$115,00043%
James Madison University$115,0005n/a
Peter Paul Development Center Inc$115,00051%
ReWork Richmond Inc$107,50055%
Friends Association for Children$95,00051%
Anna Julia Cooper School$80,00041%
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All grantees of Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond$170,00052%
Communities in Schools$145,00050%
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Incorporated$133,00030%
St Andrew's School$130,00042%
Shalom Farmsinc$115,00043%
James Madison University$115,0005n/a
Peter Paul Development Center Inc$115,00051%
ReWork Richmond Inc$107,50055%
Friends Association for Children$95,00051%
Anna Julia Cooper School$80,00041%
Elk Hill Farm Inc$80,00040%
Children's Hospital Foundation$80,00020%
Feed More Inc$80,00040%
Higher Achievement Program Inc$80,00041%
James River Association$80,00050%
The Collegiate School$75,00050%
Up Rva$75,00032%
Rise Richmond Inc$70,00051%
Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic$65,00040%
Area Congregations Together in Service$60,00033%
Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc$50,00021%
Better Housing Coalition$50,00020%
Greater Richmond Scan - Stop Child Abuse Now Inc$45,00030%
Oakwood Arts Inc$42,50053%
Northstar Academy Inc$42,50040%
The Cross-Over Ministry Inc$40,00020%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$40,00050%
GoochlandCares$40,00020%
Capital Trees$37,50053%
The Richmond Ballet$37,50050%
The Richmond Symphony$37,50050%
The Valentine Museum$37,50050%
Voices for Virginia's Children$37,50033%
Health Brigade$35,00021%
Partnership for the Future$30,00021%
Daily Planet Incorporated$30,00020%
ART 180 Inc$25,00051%
Historic Richmond Foundation$25,00051%
Maymont Foundation$25,00050%
St Joseph's Villa$22,50030%
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls$22,50030%
Soar 365$22,50030%
SupportWorks Housing$22,50030%
Virginia Repertory Theatre$20,00050%
Illume Family Recovery Inc$20,000121%
Camp Holiday Trails$20,00021%
Museum of the Bible$20,00010%
The Cameron K Gallagher Foundation$15,00013%
Gateway Homes Inc$15,0003n/a
Sacred Heart Center Inc$15,00011%
Homeward$15,00011%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$15,00010%
Richmond Hill Incorporated$15,00031%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$12,5005n/a
Virginia Historical Society$12,50050%
Chesterfield Public Education Foundation$10,00021%
American Jewish University$10,00010%
Friends of the Court Understanding through Sharing Inc$10,00025%
VMI Foundation$10,00020%
Eat Real Certified Inc$10,00010%
The McShin Foundation$10,00010%
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond$7,50030%
Nextup Rva$7,5001n/a
World Pediatrics$7,50010%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$7,50030%
Foundation of Truth Ministry$5,0001n/a
Virginians for Veterans$5,00011%
Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department$4,00041%
Medical College of Va Foundation$3,00030%
Gateway Homes Inc$2,50010%
National Association for Christian Recovery$2,5001n/a
Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation$2,50010%
Path Partnerships$1,00010%
Westminster Canterbury Corporation$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond: $170,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCommunities in Schools: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia League for Planned Parenthood Incorporated: $133,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $130,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetShalom Farmsinc: $115,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPeter Paul Development Center Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetReWork Richmond Inc: $107,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFriends Association for Children: $95,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAnna Julia Cooper School: $80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetElk Hill Farm Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeed More Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHigher Achievement Program Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJames River Association: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Collegiate School: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUp Rva: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRise Richmond Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetChildsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic: $65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetArea Congregations Together in Service: $60,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBetter Housing Coalition: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Richmond Scan - Stop Child Abuse Now Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOakwood Arts Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNorthstar Academy Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cross-Over Ministry Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGoochlandCares: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCapital Trees: $37,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetThe Richmond Ballet: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Richmond Symphony: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Valentine Museum: $37,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVoices for Virginia's Children: $37,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHealth Brigade: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPartnership for the Future: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDaily Planet Incorporated: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART 180 Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHistoric Richmond Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMaymont Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph's Villa: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Home for Boys and Girls: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSoar 365: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Repertory Theatre: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIllume Family Recovery Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCamp Holiday Trails: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMuseum of the Bible: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSacred Heart Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 68.

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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.

Herndon FoundationVA86.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herndon Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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 Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn

How much does Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn give?
Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn reported 57 grants totaling $1,207,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 77 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (22%), Health (11%).
Who are Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond ($170k), Communities in Schools ($145k), Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Incorporated ($133k).
Does Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn 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 Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herndon Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.
Where is Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn based?
Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn is based in PA.

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 105 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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