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.

Pacifica Foundation

Pacifica Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.7MInternational$360kArts & Culture$180kEnvironment$121kYouth Development$75kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$34kHuman Services$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$91k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SCHOOL OF CHOICE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION	$35,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 27 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+25%

Still filing today

67%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthScience & TechOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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THE HAITIAN PROJECT INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +41%
OH
OPERA HOUSE ARTS
2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +32%
HM
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
4× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +63%

Funded once

CM
COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -9%
PV
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M
one grant, 2020 · $50k
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UCAP
one grant, 2020 · $35k

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.

04Its field

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.

Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

Brown School

Running a private school.

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The French-American School of Rhode Island

The french american school of rhode islands (fasri) multilingual experience cultivates globally-minded, confident, creative learners.

Education

Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals

The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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Roger Williams University School of Law

The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…

Education

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education

The Rhode Island Community Foundation

The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference

Philanthropy

The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc

Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

Education

Island Pacific Academy Inc

Island pacific academy (ipa) is a k-12 independent, coed, college preparatory school

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Home for Children; the most unlike its peers is The Ark Pope Memorial Animal Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

18/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Improvement$3,159,713Other$1,531,000Education$580,100Philanthropy$266,000Arts & Culture$179,500Science & Tech$120,000International$100,000

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.

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pacifica Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pacifica Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home