· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILD | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON | $10,000 |
| INLAND LAKES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DORI | $5,000 |
| NH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| VN & HOSPICE OF VTNH | $5,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -1%
- SASEMESTER AT SEA OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 65 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 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 Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pav Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pav Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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