· Private foundation
Kimberly & Erika Pearson Foundation Inc
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WETA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| OSAMEQUIN FARM | $2,000 |
| 3D ROBOTICS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IAIowa Abortion Access Fund3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue -13%
SAVE THE BAY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue -16%- AFArt Factory - Pied Piper Theater2× · 2022–2023 · $7k
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +26%- DDONORSCHOOSEORGone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -5%
- PLPEARSON LAKES ART CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +93%
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Iowa Abortion Access Fund ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Osamequin Farm Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kimberly & Erika Pearson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kimberly & Erika Pearson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Osamequin Farm Inc: 18% of income from government
How this is measured
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