· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k271 grants · $393k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $69,000 |
| CULTURE LAB LIC | $27,100 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR BROOKLYN & QUEENS | $25,000 |
| QUEENS MUSEUM | $17,500 |
| QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DUKE ANNUAL FUND | $14,500 |
| QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE | $10,500 |
| SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC | $9,000 |
| INSEAD MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $6,250 |
| DUKE LAW SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| HUNTERS POINT PARKS CONSERVANCY | $6,000 |
| URBAN DESIGN FORUM | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
357 repeat relationships: 255 still active in FY2024, 102 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $288k · revenue +51%- QMQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +56%
- TQTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- CFCenter for an Urban Futureone grant, 2019 · $60k
- MMMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -8%
- DMDubuque Mercy Health Foundationone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Education and Research
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
220 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. 220 of the 608 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CULTURE LAB LIC INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds NYC KIDS RISE INC ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mathis Pfohl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mathis Pfohl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Cambridge Montessori School Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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