Maryland · Private foundation
Pettit Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Pettit Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 37 | $244k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $254k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $255k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $252k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $256k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $237k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $259k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $286k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuilding Together Montgomery County Inc | $146,200 | 9 | 4% |
| The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $145,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Home Builders Care Foundation Inc | $90,100 | 9 | 8% |
| Gospel Haiti Inc | $82,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Heart to Heart Comienzos East Inc | $79,000 | 8 | 42% |
| Housing Unlimited Inc | $76,500 | 9 | 0% |
| In Honor of Her Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 40% |
| Olney Theatre Corporation Inc | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Maryland Food Bank Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Montgomery College Foundation | $47,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($836k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pettit Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Spm Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · The Phase Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Pettit Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Pettit Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Pettit Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Pettit Family Charitable Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $250,070 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pettit Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Housing & Shelter (24%), Education (8%).
- Who are Pettit Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rebuilding Together Montgomery County Inc ($146k), The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc ($146k), The Home Builders Care Foundation Inc ($90k).
- Does Pettit Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pettit Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pettit Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, William S Abell Foundation Inc.
- Where is Pettit Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Pettit Family Charitable Foundation is based in MD.
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