Rhode Island · Private foundation
Pacifica Foundation
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.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $91k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Pacifica Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $83k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $323k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $654k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia Academy | $375,100 | 2 | 17% |
| School of Choice Education Organization | $258,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries | $120,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Lincoln School | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Haitian Project Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Opera House Arts | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Haystack Mountain School of Crafts | $90,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Community Preparatory School | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Community Musicworks | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Island Nursing Home Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pacifica 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The White Family Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee
How this is measured
About Pacifica Foundation
- How much does Pacifica Foundation give?
- Pacifica Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pacifica Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), International (6%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are Pacifica Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sophia Academy ($375k), School of Choice Education Organization ($258k), Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ($120k).
- Does Pacifica Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pacifica 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 Pacifica Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Champlin Foundation.
- Where is Pacifica Foundation based?
- Pacifica Foundation is based in RI.
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