Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Pearson Family Foundation-Tr
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.
- $123k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Pearson Family Foundation-Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% 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 | 18 | $123k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $128k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $114k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $123k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $119k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthjustice | $183,999 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Audiences Inc | $91,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Wesleyan University | $57,000 | 5 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Council for the Traditional Arts | $34,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Audiences New York Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Osborn Foundation | $15,000 | 4 | 1% |
| City Lore Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pearson Family Foundation-Tr 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 New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Pearson Family Foundation-Tr
- How much does Pearson Family Foundation-Tr give?
- Pearson Family Foundation-Tr reported 18 grants totaling $122,633 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Pearson Family Foundation-Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (23%).
- Who are Pearson Family Foundation-Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Earthjustice ($184k), Young Audiences Inc ($91k), Wesleyan University ($57k).
- Does Pearson Family Foundation-Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pearson Family Foundation-Tr 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 Pearson Family Foundation-Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Pearson Family Foundation-Tr based?
- Pearson Family Foundation-Tr is based in PA.
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