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Pegasus Liberty Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
75%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 75% of the organizations Pegasus Liberty Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20194$25k75%
FY20177$423kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

International$406kArts & Culture$11kEducation$10kHuman Services$9kReligion$6kHealth$5kPublic Benefit$750Housing & Shelter$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Freedom Fund$280,57312%
Free the Slaves$125,00015%
Atlas Cultural Foundation$11,00029%
Alliance for Choice in Education$10,00010%
Bridgercare$5,00010%
No One Left Behind$80010%
Judicial Watch Inc$75010%
Collective Chicago$50011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pegasus Liberty Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Freedom Fund: $280,573 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFree the Slaves: $125,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAtlas Cultural Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgercare: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Pegasus Liberty Foundation

How much does Pegasus Liberty Foundation give?
Pegasus Liberty Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $24,500 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Pegasus Liberty Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are International (91%), Arts & Culture (2%), Education (2%).
Who are Pegasus Liberty Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: The Freedom Fund ($281k), Free the Slaves ($125k), Atlas Cultural Foundation ($11k).
Does Pegasus Liberty Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pegasus Liberty 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 Pegasus Liberty Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Pegasus Liberty Foundation based?
Pegasus Liberty Foundation is based in MT.

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 10 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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