Alabama · Private foundation
Pei Ling Charitable Trust
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.
- $355k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- 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 Pei Ling Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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 | 13 | $340k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $313k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $300k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $272k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $227k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $219k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudsonalpha Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Soar Foundation | $205,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Community Ballet Association Inc | $89,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Huntsville Chamber Music Guild | $83,300 | 6 | 16% |
| Huntsville Master Chorale | $63,000 | 4 | 63% |
| Museum Board of the City of Huntsville | $27,470 | 5 | 0% |
| Kenya Education Fund | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Huntsville Police Citizens Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudsonalpha Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Soar Foundation | $205,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Community Ballet Association Inc | $89,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Huntsville Chamber Music Guild | $83,300 | 6 | 16% |
| Huntsville Master Chorale | $63,000 | 4 | 63% |
| Museum Board of the City of Huntsville | $27,470 | 5 | 0% |
| Kenya Education Fund | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Huntsville Police Citizens Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Portland Public Schools | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mobile Ballet Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ms Senior Alabama Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Huntsville Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Huntsville | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Twickenham Fest | $1,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Friends of Huntsville Parks and Recreation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Randolph School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($824k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pei Ling Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Pei Ling Charitable Trust
- How much does Pei Ling Charitable Trust give?
- Pei Ling Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $355,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Pei Ling Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Education (20%), Science & Tech (18%).
- Who are Pei Ling Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hudsonalpha Foundation ($300k), The Soar Foundation ($205k), Community Ballet Association Inc ($89k).
- Does Pei Ling Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pei Ling Charitable Trust 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 Pei Ling Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Pei Ling Charitable Trust based?
- Pei Ling Charitable Trust is based in AL.
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