How much does Pharos Foundation give?

Pharos Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,240,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Pharos Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Public Benefit (20%), Philanthropy (8%).

Who are Pharos Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: City Fund ($3.5M), Turning Point USA Inc ($1.9M), The Heritage Foundation ($1.7M).

Does Pharos Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Pharos Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pharos Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Burton Family Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.

Where is Pharos Foundation based?

Pharos Foundation is based in WY.

Foundation Dossiers

Wyoming · Private foundation

Pharos Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 30
Grants FY2024: 30
Organizations funded FY2023: 30%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $400,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 42; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $32M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Pharos Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	28	$1.2M	36%
FY2023	30	$3.9M	30%
FY2022	27	$5.7M	30%
FY2021	41	$3.6M	56%
FY2020	42	$3.5M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$11MPublic Benefit$3.7MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MYouth Development$420kCommunity Improvement$350kArts & Culture$274kHealth$240kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City Fund	$3,500,000	2	3%
Turning Point USA Inc	$1,850,000	2	3%
The Heritage Foundation	$1,725,680	3	1%
Arizona Leads	$1,002,500	3	69%
Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation	$650,000	3	33%
The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education	$500,000	1	4%
San Joaquin a Plus Inc	$500,000	1	13%
Aliento Education Fund	$455,000	4	12%
Achievement First Inc	$430,000	2	0%
Northern Arizona University Foundation	$400,000	1	1%

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All grantees of Pharos Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City Fund	$3,500,000	2	3%
Turning Point USA Inc	$1,850,000	2	3%
The Heritage Foundation	$1,725,680	3	1%
Arizona Leads	$1,002,500	3	69%
Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation	$650,000	3	33%
The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education	$500,000	1	4%
San Joaquin a Plus Inc	$500,000	1	13%
Aliento Education Fund	$455,000	4	12%
Achievement First Inc	$430,000	2	0%
Northern Arizona University Foundation	$400,000	1	1%
Arizona Latino Leaders in Education	$352,084	2	53%
The Center for Education Reform	$325,000	2	11%
Vista College Preparatory Inc	$250,000	1	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Inc	$225,000	1	1%
Phoenix Public Library Foundation	$120,000	3	27%
New Pathways For Youth	$100,000	3	2%
Kent School	$90,000	3	0%
Montclair Foundation Inc	$85,000	3	3%
The Children's Learning Center Inc	$75,000	4	0%
Be a Leader Foundation	$67,500	5	1%
Grand Teton Music Festival Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Teton Youth and Family Services	$55,000	4	0%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc	$50,600	5	0%
St John's Health Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Common Sense Institute	$50,000	1	1%
Central Arts Alliance	$50,000	1	5%
Freedomworks Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Jackson Hole Classical Academy Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Fresh Start Women's Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
One22 Inc	$40,000	2	1%
Palmetto Promise Institute	$40,000	3	4%
Common Sense Media	$35,000	2	0%
Dress for Success Worldwide	$30,000	1	0%
Central Wyoming College	$30,000	1	n/a
Protect Our Water Jackson Hole Inc	$27,500	2	4%
Read Better Be Better	$25,000	1	2%
Mental Health & Recovery Services of Jackson Hole	$25,000	1	1%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Behind the Book Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy	$20,000	1	0%
Contigo Immigrant Justice	$20,000	2	1%
Education Forward Arizona	$20,000	4	0%
Teewinot Institute	$20,000	2	6%
Santa Fe Indian School	$20,000	2	0%
Institute for Latino Progress	$15,000	1	0%
Vela Education Fund	$15,000	1	0%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance	$15,000	2	0%
Capital Research Center	$12,500	2	0%
Homeward Bound	$10,000	1	0%
The Arizona Animal Welfare League	$10,000	2	0%
Dancers Workshop	$10,000	2	0%
Landmark Legal Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Chicanos Por la Causa Inc Cplc	$10,000	1	0%
Social Venture Partners	$5,625	2	0%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Independent Institute	$5,000	1	0%
Rising Youth Theatre	$5,000	1	1%
The Montclair Art Museum	$5,000	1	0%
Ballet Arizona	$5,000	1	0%
Friends of Public Radio Arizona	$3,500	1	0%
Phoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911	$2,500	1	0%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix	$2,500	1	0%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$2,000	1	0%
Luckys Place Inc	$1,500	1	n/a
Champion Athletic Club Inc	$1,300	1	3%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.

Pharos Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 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

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 63.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ29.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · Helios Education Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Garcia Family Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way

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 Pharos Foundation

How much does Pharos Foundation give?: Pharos Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,240,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Pharos Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Public Benefit (20%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Pharos Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: City Fund ($3.5M), Turning Point USA Inc ($1.9M), The Heritage Foundation ($1.7M).
Does Pharos Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pharos Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pharos Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Burton Family Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
Where is Pharos Foundation based?: Pharos Foundation is based in WY.