Michigan · 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.
- $230k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Pav Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $205k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $228k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $199k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $180k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $219k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $157k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $191k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $138k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Valley Haven | $152,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Family Service Association Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Rock N Rescue | $108,000 | 5 | 4% |
| McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $77,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $76,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $53,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Dayton Inc | $53,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council | $51,000 | 9 | 0% |
| High Horses Center for Equine- Assisted Services | $46,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($421k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pav Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Pav Foundation
- How much does Pav Foundation give?
- Pav Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $230,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pav Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (18%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Pav Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upper Valley Haven ($153k), Family Service Association Inc ($120k), Rock N Rescue ($108k).
- Does Pav Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pav 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 Pav Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Couch Family Foundation.
- Where is Pav Foundation based?
- Pav Foundation is based in MI.
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