· Private foundation
Pav 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK N RESCUE | $50,000 |
| LEXINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILD | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON | $10,000 |
| INLAND LAKES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $5,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $5,000 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DORI | $5,000 |
| VN & HOSPICE OF VTNH | $5,000 |
| NH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UVUPPER VALLEY HAVEN9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +107%
- RNROCK N RESCUE5× · 2021–2025 · $108k · revenue +95%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOUNDRY WATERS WILDERNESS FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $9k
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -28%
- WSWOODY STUDENMUND ENDOWED PROFESSORSone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
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.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclaren Northern Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Family Service Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ROCK N RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HIGH HORSES CENTER FOR EQUINE- ASSISTED SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds INLAND LAKES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Montessori Northwest ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE SAILORS ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Second Growth Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Schon Family Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pav Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.