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Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$827k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$44k0%
FY20246$44k33%
FY20234$44k0%
FY20224$38k0%
FY20214$41k0%
FY20205$43k0%
FY20198$36k50%
FY20186$39k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$271kArts & Culture$72kHealth$49k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pomona College$122,00090%
The Caltech Y$113,70092%
The American Film Institute$69,00080%
Abilityfirst$49,15090%
Cate School$6,50030%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery$3,00020%
Westridge School for Girls Inc$50010%
The Chandler School$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPomona College: $122,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Caltech Y: $113,700 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetThe American Film Institute: $69,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAbilityfirst: $49,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCate School: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHenry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestridge School for Girls Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chandler School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation

How much does Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation give?
Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $52,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (13%).
Who are Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pomona College ($122k), The Caltech Y ($114k), The American Film Institute ($69k).
Does Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation based?
Lorraine F Petitfils Foundation is based in CA.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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