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Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable 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.

$201k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,198
Largest grant, FY2025
$53,400
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving15$201k33%
FY202416$184k56%
FY202315$198k27%
FY202215$127k20%
FY202111$106k0%
FY20207$119k14%
FY201921$101k29%
FY201821$78k71%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$667kEducation$410kHealth$80kYouth Development$25kCrime & Legal$13kPublic Benefit$10kReligion$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgetown University: $205,605 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $187,350 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $161,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity College: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFire Museum of Maryland Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSan Francisco Ballet Association: $56,845 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNapa Valley Festival Association: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia College of the Arts: $24,198 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Symphony: $15,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Free Clinic: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Counsel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco General Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget42nd Street Moon: $5,305 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Alameda County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFairfield University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRedwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnterprise High Sch Music Booster: $4,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCalifornia Historical Society: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTipping Point Community: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Rainbow Inc: $1,044 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Playaz: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Georgetown Waterfront Pa: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHouston Marathon Foundation: $527 over 1y, 0.1% 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 27.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation

How much does Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation give?
Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $201,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Education (33%), Health (6%).
Who are Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($206k), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($187k), San Francisco Opera Association ($161k).
Does Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable 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 Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
Where is Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation based?
Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 61 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-PF 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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