· Private foundation
Peters Pharis Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RON BROWN SCHOLAR FUND | $150,000 |
| THRIVE SCHOLARS | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR GREAT CITY SCHOOLS | $60,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND | $40,000 |
| QUESTBRIDGE | $30,000 |
| NEW VILLAGE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LA | $20,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $15,000 |
| HIGH JUMP | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHRIVE SCHOLARS5× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +152%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +78%
- NVNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- OJOPERATION JUMP STARTone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- JNJUAN NEVAREZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…
College possible is a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt organization making college admission and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support.
Fce's mission is to increase the number of first-generation, low-income students of color from east palo alto, ca and surrounding communities who graduate with a degree from a four-year college or university. fce was founded out of a…
Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
The mission of college horizons (ch) is to encourage and facilitate the education of native american young people. the goals of ch are to increase the higher education rate of native students by provide pre-college (college horizons),…
We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.
Leadership enterprise for a diverse america (leda) empowers a community of exceptional young leaders from under-resourced backgrounds by supporting their higher education and professional success in order to create a more inclusive and…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Ron Brown Scholar Fund ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds College Bound ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peters Pharis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peters Pharis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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