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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Pan American Development Foundation

The PAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (padf) saves lives, promotes economic growth, and advances security and rule of law. Through partnerships and innovation, we enable people across the americas to prosper with dignity and respect, creating opportunities for all.

$45M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$54,060
Largest grant, FY2025
$356,385
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$68M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Pan American Development Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $868k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalSocial ScienceArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$1.5M0%
FY202418$4.3M44%
FY202311$2.3M73%
FY20229$1.5M22%
FY20219$2.2M100%
FY20201$40k0%
FY20192$304kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$4.5MInternational$3.4MSocial Science$1.2MCivil Rights$550kCommunity Improvement$289kArts & Culture$245kEnvironment$234kHuman Services$172kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education$1,861,83831%
Oas Organization of the American States$1,663,8653n/a
Insight Crime Incorporated$1,352,987432%
National Opinion Research Center$856,82020%
Pmart Consultancy$828,0242n/a
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation$690,00421%
Hive International LLC$506,3852n/a
Unidos Sin Fronteras$442,181568%
USA Latin Networking LLC$397,8622n/a
University of Texas at San Antonio$394,4532n/a
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All grantees of Pan American Development Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education$1,861,83831%
Oas Organization of the American States$1,663,8653n/a
Insight Crime Incorporated$1,352,987432%
National Opinion Research Center$856,82020%
Pmart Consultancy$828,0242n/a
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation$690,00421%
Hive International LLC$506,3852n/a
Unidos Sin Fronteras$442,181568%
USA Latin Networking LLC$397,8622n/a
University of Texas at San Antonio$394,4532n/a
Humans Capital for the World Inc$307,4612n/a
International Association of Directors of Law(Iadlest)$276,95138%
Smart Risk Consulting LLC$194,2602n/a
Para la Naturaleza Inc$190,00021%
Crespin Enterprises Inc Dba Collaborateup$146,5412n/a
Auburn University$124,7503n/a
Lab4u Inc$86,1193n/a
International Human Rights Legal LLC$80,0002n/a
The Due Process of Law Foundation$62,00622%
World Resources Institute$50,00020%
V5 Initiative Inc$43,492222%
Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights$40,00020%
Internews Network$38,71810%
The George Washington University$23,10010%
Dream Time Dive Resort LLC$15,0001n/a
Iesa Foundation$14,90212%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pan American Development Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $1,861,838 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetInsight Crime Incorporated: $1,352,987 over 4y, 32% of budgetNational Opinion Research Center: $856,820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInnovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation: $690,004 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUnidos Sin Fronteras: $442,181 over 5y, 68% of budgetInternational Association of Directors of Law(Iadlest): $276,951 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetPara la Naturaleza Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Due Process of Law Foundation: $62,006 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWorld Resources Institute: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetV5 Initiative Inc: $43,492 over 2y, 22% of budgetRobert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternews Network: $38,718 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $23,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIesa Foundation: $14,902 over 1y, 2.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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.

National Endowment fo…Wellspring Philanthro…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Endowment for DemocracyDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Pan American Development Foundation

How much does Pan American Development Foundation give?
Pan American Development Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,478,496, out of $45,161,417 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Pan American Development Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (42%), International (32%), Social Science (11%).
Who are Pan American Development Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ($1.9M), Oas Organization of the American States ($1.7M), Insight Crime Incorporated ($1.4M).
Does Pan American Development Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pan American Development Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Endowment for Democracy, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
Where is Pan American Development Foundation based?
Pan American Development Foundation is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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