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Pgn 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,300
Organizations funded a year
33 to 36
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Pgn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & 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 arriving35$72k3%
FY202434$66k12%
FY202333$62k0%
FY202236$59k14%
FY202134$59k9%
FY202033$58k6%
FY201934$63kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$143kHealth$111kPhilanthropy$75kAnimals$37kHuman Services$36kReligion$18kRecreation & Sports$17kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
WY
IA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trustees of Grinnell College$55,00070%
Pomona College$40,00040%
Montana On A Mission$25,60072%
Changing Gaits Inc$20,30071%
Grg Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary$16,3004n/a
Pioneer Medical Center$15,40030%
Children's Hospital Colorado$13,00070%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$12,00070%
Farmhouse Foundation$11,00070%
Hearts 4 Henry$9,60041%
Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of Pgn Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trustees of Grinnell College$55,00070%
Pomona College$40,00040%
Montana On A Mission$25,60072%
Changing Gaits Inc$20,30071%
Grg Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary$16,3004n/a
Pioneer Medical Center$15,40030%
Children's Hospital Colorado$13,00070%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$12,00070%
Farmhouse Foundation$11,00070%
Hearts 4 Henry$9,60041%
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat$8,80070%
ZooMontana Inc$8,80070%
Majestic Hills Ranch Foundation$7,20070%
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA$7,00070%
The Montana Land Reliance$6,75070%
St Marks Episcopal Church$6,5007n/a
Intermountain Planned Parenthood$6,00050%
University of Minnesota Foundation$5,60070%
Hennepin Health Foundation$5,25070%
Hope for the Child Incorporated$5,25071%
American Bear Foundation$5,00015%
Faith Recovery & Music$4,00052%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana$3,25070%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$3,20020%
The Blake School$3,20070%
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota$3,00050%
Crossroads Aftercare Program Inc$3,0002n/a
Montana Meth Project$2,20050%
Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction Inc$2,17570%
Cana Family Institute$2,10070%
Billings Clinic Foundation$2,10070%
Feeding America$2,00010%
Americares Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Mount Olive Lutheran Church Foundation$1,80031%
The Alano Society of Minneapolis Inc$1,75070%
Mount Olivet Lutheran Church Foundation$1,65030%
Sweet Grass Artists Alliance Inc$1,40021%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana$1,20010%
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation$1,20020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of Grinnell College: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPomona College: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMontana On A Mission: $25,600 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetChanging Gaits Inc: $20,300 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPioneer Medical Center: $15,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFarmhouse Foundation: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHearts 4 Henry: $9,600 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat: $8,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetZooMontana Inc: $8,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMajestic Hills Ranch Foundation: $7,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montana Land Reliance: $6,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $5,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHennepin Health Foundation: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHope for the Child Incorporated: $5,250 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Bear Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFaith Recovery & Music: $4,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana: $3,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the North: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blake School: $3,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Meth Project: $2,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction Inc: $2,175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCana Family Institute: $2,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBillings Clinic Foundation: $2,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Olive Lutheran Church Foundation: $1,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Alano Society of Minneapolis Inc: $1,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMount Olivet Lutheran Church Foundation: $1,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSweet Grass Artists Alliance Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Advocates of Montana: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood North Central States Foundation: $1,200 over 2y, 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 36.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Montana Community Foundation IncMT17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

Compare Pgn Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Pgn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pgn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Pgn Foundation

How much does Pgn Foundation give?
Pgn Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $80,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Pgn Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (23%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Pgn Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Trustees of Grinnell College ($55k), Pomona College ($40k), Montana On A Mission ($26k).
Does Pgn Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pgn Foundation 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 Pgn Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, Otto Bremer Trust, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Pgn Foundation based?
Pgn Foundation is based in NV.

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 52 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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