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Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc

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.

$268k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 32
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$5.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$268k6%
FY202430$283k30%
FY202332$299k19%
FY202230$301k13%
FY202128$309kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$720kHuman Services$282kHealth$150kArts & Culture$50kEnvironment$30kFood & Nutrition$29kReligion$26kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Catherine's School Foundation: $315,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia: $195,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetExchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHospice & Palliative Carecenter: $60,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetForsyth Technical Community College Foundation Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetForsyth Country Day School Inc: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Services Inc: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPiedmont Land Conservancy: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons Residential Care Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Services Inc: $23,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBookmarks Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWinston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIFB Solutions Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetCamp Diversity Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetHistoric Flat Rock Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForsyth Medical Center Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOld Salem Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJunior League of Winston-Salem Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNovant Health Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWake Forest University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSipes Orchard Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReynolda House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIcan House Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 Winston-Salem FoundationNC38× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · James T & Louise R Broyhilll Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Shallow Ford Foundation Inc · Foundation for Science Art Life and Technolgy · The Kurtz Family Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc

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.

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About Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc

How much does Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc give?
Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $268,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 32 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Human Services (19%), Health (10%).
Who are Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Catherine's School Foundation ($315k), The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia ($195k), Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina Inc ($90k).
Does Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation.
Where is Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc based?
Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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