· Private foundation
Pah Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET-SLEEPING BEAUTY | $125,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET - ANNUAL FUND | $50,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET- NEW WORK SPONSORSHIP | $50,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - NEWHOUSE DEAN'S FUND | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC PALLIATIVE MEDICINE GRANT | $40,000 |
| NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - CENTER OF BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS | $30,000 |
| SHUNPIKE ARTS COLLECTIVE - JUMPKUT | $25,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| URYADI'S VILLAGE INC | $15,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET - RAISE THE PADDLE GALA | $10,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER - GALA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
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 +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $485k · revenue +40%- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +76%
- AARTSFUND4× · 2017–2020 · $140k · revenue +316%
Funded once
- SUSyracuse University - Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovationone grant, 2017 · $100k
- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET - PARIS TOURone grant, 2019 · $90k
- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET - LITTLE MORTAL JUMP SPONSORSHIPone grant, 2018 · $55k
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
University of puget sound, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction. the mission of the university is to develop in its students'…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 50 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
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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds URYADIS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER EASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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