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.

Pettit Family Charitable Foundation

Pettit Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Pettit Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$579kHousing & Shelter$565kEducation$191kReligion$158kArts & Culture$142kHuman Services$131kInternational$121kFood & Nutrition$107kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k38 grants · $115k
$10k–50k7 grants · $85k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Shady Grove Adventist Foundation	$50,000
St Francis of Assisi	$20,000
Gospel Haiti Inc	$15,000
St Francis of Assisi	$10,000
Montgomery Hospice Foundation	$10,000
Rebuilding Together Montgomery County	$10,000
Maryland Food Bank	$10,000
Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless	$10,000
Montgomery College Foundation	$7,500
Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless	$6,000
Homebuilders Care Foundation	$5,000
Germantown Cultural ArtsBlack Rock	$5,000
Germantown Cultural Center Inc	$5,000
Stepping Stones Shelter Inc	$5,000
Sandy Spring Museum	$5,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 63 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+31%

Still filing today

62%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

RT
REBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +118%
TM
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +71%
TH
THE HOME BUILDERS CARE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +12%

Funded once

SG
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
one grant, 2017 · $20k
SO
So Others May Eat
one grant, 2023 · $10k
MB
MARYLAND BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +12%

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.

Maryland Inclusive Housing Corporation

Maryland inclusive housing corporation's (mih) mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (idd) successfully access and maintain inclusive, affordable, and accessible housing of their choice by…

Housing & Shelter

Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health

Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health

Medstar Health Visiting Nurse Association Inc

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, the medstar visiting nurse association provides personalized home health care for homebound patients in maryland, northern virginia, and the district of columbia. its mission is to make a…

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Montgomery Hospice Inc

To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…

Human Services

Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition

Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit

University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health

Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health

Maryland Association of Realtors Inc

The maryland association of realtors exists to support all segments of its membership and their specialties. continued on schedule o

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University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery Housing Partnership Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lisbon Volunteer Fire Company. 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

66 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. 66 of the 133 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/66

Grantees still filing

46/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,394,255Housing & Shelter$304,200Human Services$265,500Arts & Culture$125,750Education$90,000International$82,000Crime & Legal$79,000

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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC36.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pettit Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pettit Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

25get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home