Tennessee · Public charity
Pencil Foundation
Pencil's mission is linking community resources to metro nashville public schools (mnps) to help young people achieve academic success and prepare for life. At pencil, we are committed to enriching student success through tangible, active, and robust community partnerships.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $807k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $807,169
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $807,169
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Pencil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $807k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $6.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $4k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $66k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | $10,960,134 | 9 | n/a |
About Pencil Foundation
- How much does Pencil Foundation give?
- Pencil Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $807,169, out of $3,000,602 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pencil Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Pencil Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools ($11M).
- Does Pencil Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Pencil Foundation based?
- Pencil Foundation is based in TN.
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