Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Ganassi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ganassi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $55k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $50k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $44k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $52k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $38k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $31k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $48k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $52k | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $32,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Variety the Childrens Charity | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Society of Arts and Letters | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fox Chapel Area Land Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $32,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Variety the Childrens Charity | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Society of Arts and Letters | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fox Chapel Area Land Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Action for Animals Inc | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chestnut Ridge Community VFD | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Humane Society of Somerset County | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gannon University | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Animal Friends Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Birmingham Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latrobe Art Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Frazier School District | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ganassi Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ganassi Foundation
- How much does Ganassi Foundation give?
- Ganassi Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ganassi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (28%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Ganassi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit ($100k), Pennsylvania State University ($32k), Variety the Childrens Charity ($30k).
- Does Ganassi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ganassi Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ganassi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Ganassi Foundation based?
- Ganassi Foundation is based in PA.
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