New York · Private foundation
Pilzer 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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 101
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 87
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Pilzer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 100 | $98k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $82k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $76k | 1% |
| FY2022 | 87 | $94k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $84k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $75k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 72 | $79k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $76k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters School | $145,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Hackley School | $140,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jacob Burns Film Center Inc | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Jck Foundation Inc | $34,025 | 8 | 2% |
| African Film Festivalinc | $10,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Thursday Club San Diego California | $10,350 | 6 | 1% |
| Dobbs Ferry Pba | $8,000 | 8 | 2% |
| East Hampton Town Pba | $7,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Firelight Media Inc | $7,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Midnight Run Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pilzer Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 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: The New York Community Trust · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · United Way of Westchester and Putnam · Chapman Family Foundation · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pilzer Foundation Inc
- How much does Pilzer Foundation Inc give?
- Pilzer Foundation Inc reported 101 grants totaling $97,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pilzer Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Pilzer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Masters School ($145k), Hackley School ($140k), Jacob Burns Film Center Inc ($35k).
- Does Pilzer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pilzer 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 Pilzer Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation, St Faith's House Foundation.
- Where is Pilzer Foundation Inc based?
- Pilzer Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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