Minnesota · Private foundation
Pachel Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $81k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2026
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $2,105
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $15,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $896k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 35% of the organizations Pachel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 25 | $81k | 44% |
| FY2025 | 20 | $105k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $60k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $90k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $80k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $104k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $77k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $75k | 58% |
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duluth Superior Symphony Associatio | $101,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Duluth Playhouse Inc | $91,722 | 10 | 1% |
| FM Rotary Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Lake Superior Center | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Udac Inc | $15,102 | 3 | 0% |
| The Matinee Musicale Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Damiano of Duluth Inc | $11,745 | 6 | 0% |
| Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| College of St Scholastica Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Churches United in Ministry | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pachel 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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Arrowhead Regional Arts Council · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pachel Foundation
- How much does Pachel Foundation give?
- Pachel Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $80,649 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Pachel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Pachel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Duluth Superior Symphony Associatio ($101k), Duluth Playhouse Inc ($92k), FM Rotary Foundation ($30k).
- Does Pachel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pachel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pachel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation.
- Where is Pachel Foundation based?
- Pachel Foundation is based in MN.
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