Maryland · Private foundation
Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $409k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2026
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $87,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 67
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 12
- Total assets, FY2026
- $7.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 39 | $404k | 33% |
| FY2025 | 67 | $527k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $465k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $429k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $379k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $323k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $335k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Motion Social Justice Institute | $190,000 | 6 | 25% |
| Labor Education and Research Project | $160,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | $58,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Inc | $56,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Baltimore Museum of Art | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tryon Fine Arts Center Inc | $52,000 | 6 | 1% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $51,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Luke's Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc
- How much does Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc give?
- Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $409,150 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Civil Rights (20%), Employment (7%).
- Who are Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Forward Motion Social Justice Institute ($190k), Labor Education and Research Project ($160k), Center for Constitutional Rights ($60k).
- Does Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc based?
- Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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