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Mathis Pfohl Foundation

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.

$596k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
280
Grants FY2024
268
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$69,000
Organizations funded a year
210 to 274
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
23
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Mathis Pfohl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther
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 arriving276$592k8%
FY2023268$538k8%
FY2022274$489k7%
FY2021261$514k46%
FY2019211$444k30%
FY2018210$455k70%
FY2017211$402kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$1.0MArts & Culture$447kHealth$280kInternational$146kHuman Services$142kReligion$106kCommunity Improvement$80kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$287,50060%
Queens Museum of Art$143,50071%
Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens$115,5005n/a
The Queens Library Foundation Inc$74,50061%
Marymount Manhattan College$60,00010%
Culture Lab Lic Inc$57,850413%
Special Olympics Inc$36,00020%
Queens College Foundation Inc$35,62560%
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$27,85060%
Dubuque Museum of Art$27,70071%
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All grantees of Mathis Pfohl Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$287,50060%
Queens Museum of Art$143,50071%
Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens$115,5005n/a
The Queens Library Foundation Inc$74,50061%
Marymount Manhattan College$60,00010%
Culture Lab Lic Inc$57,850413%
Special Olympics Inc$36,00020%
Queens College Foundation Inc$35,62560%
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$27,85060%
Dubuque Museum of Art$27,70071%
Citizens Budget Commission Inc$27,50040%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$26,00040%
Queens Community House$22,80060%
Finley Health Foundation Inc$22,50070%
The Epiphany School Foundation Inc$21,50043%
Dubuque Community Y$21,00030%
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum$20,75060%
School Year Abroad Inc$19,15060%
Jacob a Riis Neighborhood Settlement$18,25050%
NYC Kids Rise Inc$18,20040%
Loras College$17,65060%
Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation$17,25050%
University of Dubuque$17,00060%
Hospice of Dubuque$16,05040%
Creartbox$16,0003n/a
The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia$16,00040%
Queens Economic Development Corporation$15,50050%
Hour Children Inc$15,45060%
Waterfront Alliance Inc$15,15060%
Pursuit Transformation Company Inc$15,10021%
Friends of Gantry Plaza State Park Inc$14,75052%
The Forum for Urban Design$14,15040%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$13,35060%
Dubuque County Early Childhood Inc$13,25051%
Sunnyside Community Services Inc$13,20050%
Four Mounds Foundation$13,10071%
Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens Inc$12,75040%
Zone 126 Inc$12,6006n/a
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa$12,50050%
The Insead Management Education Foundation$12,50040%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$12,45050%
The Childrens Scholarship Fund$12,25050%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$12,00040%
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc$11,80050%
Calvary Hospital Inc$11,20070%
Catholic Relief Services$10,8505n/a
American Museum of Natural History$10,55050%
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens Inc$10,50050%
State University of Iowa Foundation$10,25020%
New York Building Foundation Inc$10,00041%
Dubuque Regional Humane Society$9,75041%
Friends Without a Border$9,75060%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$9,75040%
Groton School$9,45060%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dubuque$9,25050%
Phillips Exeter Academy$9,00040%
River Valley Initiative Foundation$8,90033%
International Medical Corps$8,85060%
East River Development Alliance Inc$8,50040%
Americares Foundation Inc$8,30040%
The New Canaan Country School Incorporated$8,05050%
The Fountain of Youth Program$8,00031%
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated$8,00018%
The Secret Theatre$8,0004n/a
Dubuque Dream Center Inc$7,85060%
Breakthrough T1d$7,25070%
New Ground Inc$7,20041%
Friends of Greenwich Point$7,00060%
Kent Library Association Inc$7,00040%
Riverkeeper Inc$7,00060%
Mary's Meals USA Inc$6,75040%
The Sculpture Center Inc$6,75050%
The Spence School$6,70050%
Dubuque Rescue Mission$6,6006n/a
Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools$6,50042%
Feed More Inc$6,50050%
Philabundance$6,20070%
Queensboro Dance Festival Inc$6,05042%
Pacific Legal Foundation$5,90060%
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival$5,75041%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$5,75030%
Children's Hospital Corporation$5,75040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,70040%
Project Veritas$5,70020%
University of Denver$5,50040%
The Floating Hospital Inc$5,50010%
Covenant House$5,35060%
Kent Volunteer Fire Department Inc$5,20041%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$5,10050%
United States Fund for Unicef$5,00070%
Mississippi Driftless Regional Foundation$5,00011%
Meals on Wheels Inc$5,00040%
Rhodes College$5,00050%
American Rivers Inc$4,90040%
Helen Keller International$4,80040%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$4,80060%
Paine Memorial Free Library$4,75061%
Multicultural Family Center$4,60044%
Dubuque Montessori School Inc$4,55031%
The Taft School Corporation$4,50040%
The Child Center of Ny Inc$4,50040%
Lic Artists Inc$4,50034%
Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc$4,2503n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich$3,95050%
The Trustees of Princeton University$3,85050%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$3,75040%
Wildlife Conservation Society$3,75060%
Food Share Inc$3,70042%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$3,65040%
The New Canaan Library Inc$3,55040%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$3,50020%
The Floating Hospital Foundation Inc$3,50040%
City Futures Inc$3,50040%
Dance Entropy Inc$3,50040%
Hanac Inc$3,50040%
Save The Children Federation Inc$3,50040%
Centrally Rooted Mission Inc$3,50021%
Lake View Cemetery Co Inc$3,50042%
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc$3,50040%
American Museum of the Moving Image$3,43050%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$3,40060%
Caritas$3,35030%
Trustees of the Lawrenceville School$3,30050%
National Outdoor Leadership School$3,30040%
Inspiration Stables Inc$3,25031%
Headstrong Foundation$3,25040%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$3,25030%
Carnegie-Stout Public Library Found$3,25052%
Brooks School$3,25010%
Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Co$3,10041%
Judicial Watch Inc$3,10040%
Dalton Schools Inc$3,00010%
Dexter Southfield Inc$3,00030%
The Barnes Foundation$2,80070%
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia$2,75010%
Whyy Inc$2,75040%
Opening Doors Inc$2,70040%
The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia$2,55070%
Southern Connecticut Storm Special$2,50023%
Charleston Literary Festival Inc$2,50010%
Hillcrest Family Services Inc$2,50010%
The Ht40 Foundation Inc$2,50021%
College Foundation Inc$2,50040%
The Sound Beach Volunteer Fire$2,50051%
P S 384q PTA Inc$2,50016%
Clark College District 14 Foundation$2,50010%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$2,50010%
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools$2,50010%
Waveny Lifecare Network Inc$2,5001n/a
No Greater Sacrifice Foundation$2,50010%
Robin Hood Foundation$2,40060%
Legal Insurrection Foundation$2,40040%
Design Trust for Public Space Inc$2,30040%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$2,30070%
Associated Catholic Charities Inc$2,25020%
City Year Inc$2,20040%
Finca International Inc$2,10060%
The South Bronx Educational Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Operation Enpower$2,00020%
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater$2,00030%
Convivium Urban Farmstead$2,00020%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$1,80040%
City Harvest Inc$1,80050%
Buddy Dog Humane Society Inc$1,80060%
Connecticut Yankeeshuskies Hockey Inc$1,75011%
Ready Willing and Able Inc$1,7504n/a
Echoes Around the World$1,75031%
Smile Train Inc$1,70040%
The Uc Davis Foundation$1,70040%
Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc$1,60040%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$1,50040%
Operation Safe Block Inc$1,5002n/a
Fresh Air Fund$1,50050%
Riseboro Community Partnership Inc$1,50010%
Ripley Inc$1,50010%
Shady Hill School$1,40040%
Masters School$1,40020%
Commonwealth Catholic Charities$1,30020%
The Pingree School Inc$1,30030%
Perkins School for the Blind$1,30060%
Philadelphia Young Playwrights$1,30040%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$1,25030%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,25030%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$1,20030%
Scotties Gift Foundation$1,10041%
Our Lady of Mercy$1,0806n/a
St Josephs Church$1,0001n/a
Renbrook School Inc$1,00010%
Chapel of the Snows$1,0001n/a
The Hope Program Inc$1,00010%
Federation for American Immigration Reform$1,00020%
Queens Council on the Arts Inc$1,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$1,00020%
Cambridge Montessori School Inc$1,00040%
Learningspring School$1,00010%
Convent of the Sacred Heart$1,0001n/a
The Barth Syndrome Foundation$1,00010%
La Colaborativa Inc$95030%
William Lawrence Camp Inc$90030%
Wesleyan University$85070%
World Central Kitchen Inc$80020%
Children's Health Defense$70030%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$55030%
Albertus Magnus College$50020%
The Sherman Historical Society Inc$50010%
The Hotchkiss School$50010%
Turning Point USA Inc$50010%
The University of Georgia Foundation$50010%
Astoria Performing Arts Center Inc$50010%
Theater Et Al Inc Dba the Chocolate Factory Theater$5001n/a
Adirondack Land Trust Inc$50020%
Cat Connection Inc$40020%
National Down Syndrome Society$40040%
Sherman Historical Society$3001n/a
Community Charter School of Cambridge Foundation Inc$30010%
The Salvation Army$3001n/a
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc$25010%
Songcatchers Inc$2501n/a
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$25010%
The New Canaan Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc$25010%
Team Gleason Foundation$25010%
American Lung Association$20010%
Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc$20020%
Vanderbilt University$20010%
National Liberty Museum$20010%
St Agnes Church$2001n/a
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$20010%
Mothers Against Drunk Driving$20010%
Naval War College Foundation Inc$10010%
Center for Developmental Disabilities$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 371 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mathis Pfohl Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $287,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetQueens Museum of Art: $143,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe Queens Library Foundation Inc: $74,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMarymount Manhattan College: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCulture Lab Lic Inc: $57,850 over 4y, 13% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQueens College Foundation Inc: $35,625 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Deerfield Academy: $27,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDubuque Museum of Art: $27,700 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCitizens Budget Commission Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQueens Community House: $22,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFinley Health Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Epiphany School Foundation Inc: $21,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetDubuque Community Y: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum: $20,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSchool Year Abroad Inc: $19,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJacob a Riis Neighborhood Settlement: $18,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNYC Kids Rise Inc: $18,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLoras College: $17,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDubuque Mercy Health Foundation: $17,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Dubuque: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Dubuque: $16,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQueens Economic Development Corporation: $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHour Children Inc: $15,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWaterfront Alliance Inc: $15,150 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPursuit Transformation Company Inc: $15,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Gantry Plaza State Park Inc: $14,750 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Forum for Urban Design: $14,150 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $13,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDubuque County Early Childhood Inc: $13,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSunnyside Community Services Inc: $13,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFour Mounds Foundation: $13,100 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetVariety Boys and Girls Club of Queens Inc: $12,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Insead Management Education Foundation: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $12,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Scholarship Fund: $12,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc: $11,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCalvary Hospital Inc: $11,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $10,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetState University of Iowa Foundation: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Building Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDubuque Regional Humane Society: $9,750 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFriends Without a Border: $9,750 over 6y, 0.2% 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 200.

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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.

James B & Melita a McDonough FoundationIA46.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · The Butler Family Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Thomas and Jeanne Elmezzi Private Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson 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 Mathis Pfohl Foundation

How much does Mathis Pfohl Foundation give?
Mathis Pfohl Foundation reported 280 grants totaling $595,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 210 and 274 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mathis Pfohl Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Mathis Pfohl Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Duke University ($288k), Queens Museum of Art ($144k), Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens ($116k).
Does Mathis Pfohl Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mathis Pfohl Foundation 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 Mathis Pfohl Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation, Heartland Charitable Trust, Dubuque Racing Association Ltd.
Where is Mathis Pfohl Foundation based?
Mathis Pfohl Foundation is based in NY.

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 608 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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