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Pellett Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$108kEducation$46kPhilanthropy$23kRecreation & Sports$14kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$10kCrime & Legal$8kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fork Shoals Historical Society$23,000
Tunnels to Towers$6,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Mountain Alliance$3,000
Columbia Green$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Tunnels to Towers: $6k → 11%CAMPBELL YOUNG LEADERS: $20k → 10%CLEMSON PAW PANTRY: $3k → 16%MIDLAND LEUKEMIA: $9k → 16%TOWN OF FRIENDSHIP: $2k → 32%WELCOME HOUSE: $5k → 12%College Dance Collective: $3k → 17%CHANGED CHOICES: $8k → 10%MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE: $4k → 21%BROOKSTONE SCHOOL: $10k → 18%NEFSA: $3k → 7%MAINE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%SC CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $10k → 10%Welcome House: $5k → 12%COLLEGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $3k → 17%Change Choices: $3k → 10%Mountain Alliance: $3k → 21%BROOKSTONE SCHOOL: $10k → 18%Brendan Lash Memorial Scholarship F: $5k → 11%NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE SCHOOL: $3k → 10%Change Choices: $3k → 10%MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE: $3k → 21%BROOKSTONE SCHOOL: $10k → 18%FRIENDSHIP MUSEUM: $1k → 11%PROJECT HOST: $10k → 10%Mountain Alliance: $3k → 21%NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE SCHOOL: $1k → 10%MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE: $2k → 21%SC CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $10k → 10%MOUTAIN ALLIANCE: $2k → 21%FORK SHOALS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35k → 10%Fork Shoals Historical Society: $23k → 10%Fork Shoals Historical Society: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 9 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$176k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+66%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • MA
    Mountain Alliance Inc
    6× · 2017–2026 · $16k · revenue +67%
  • CG
    COLUMBIA GREEN
    3× · 2024–2026 · $7k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CY
    CAMPBELL YOUNG LEADERSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community School Collaborative

To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
3
Cornerstone Christian School

The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.

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4
Carolina Christian Academy

Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.

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5
TreesCharlotte

Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.

Environment
6
Caldwell Arts Council Inc

To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc

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7
North Central Massachusetts Chamber Foundation

Scholarships are awarded to highlight the acedemic excellence of high school seniors in the community

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8
Cambridge Academy Inc

Cambridge academy provides students with an academically excellent curriculum, while fostering physical, social, and spiritual wellness within a nurturing environment.

Education
9
Columbia Childrens Theatre

Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…

Arts & Culture
10
Charlotte Country Day School

Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…

Education
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
South Carolina Broadcasters Association Educational Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Changed Choices Inc; the most unlike its peers is Campbell Young Leaders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORK SHOALS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $78,000 · OtherFORK SHOALS HISTORICAL SOCIETYMountain Alliance Inc: $16,000 · OtherMountain Alliance IncPROJECT HOST INC: $10,000 · OtherPROJECT HOST INCWelcome House: $10,000 · OtherWelcome HouseIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherBrendan Lash Memorial Scholarship F: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $13,000 · Other+5 moreBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationBROOKSTONE SCHOOL …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUN…Maine Library Association: $5,000 · EducationMaine Library Asso…SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROL…COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLAGE DAN…CAMPBELL YOUNG LEADERS: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCAMPBELL …Changed Choices Inc: $8,000 · Crime & LegalCOLUMBIA GREEN: $6,500 · Environment
Other$147,000Education$41,000Arts & Culture$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Crime & Legal$8,000Environment$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORK SHOALS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $78,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPBELL YOUNG LEADERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Alliance Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChanged Choices Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOLUMBIA GREEN: $6,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pellett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pellett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 20 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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