Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Pfau Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Pfau Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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 | 49 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $1.4M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.4M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $1.4M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $1.3M | 47% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $1.4M | 79% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| MindPeace Cincinnati | $300,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Lighthouse Youth Services | $280,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $250,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Youth Collaborative | $231,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Learning Grove Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $210,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Works | $210,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Santa Maria Community Services Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| ProKids | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pfau Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 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: Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Millstone Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Josephine S Russell Charitable
How this is measured
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About Pfau Charitable Foundation
- How much does Pfau Charitable Foundation give?
- Pfau Charitable Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,557,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pfau Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are Pfau Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($450k), MindPeace Cincinnati ($300k), Lighthouse Youth Services ($280k).
- Does Pfau Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pfau Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pfau Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Andrew Jergens Foundation, John a Schroth Family Char Tr, Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust.
- Where is Pfau Charitable Foundation based?
- Pfau Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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