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Pivot Points 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.

$440k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$956kAnimals$726kHuman Services$243kHealth$111kArts & Culture$100kEnvironment$95kFood & Nutrition$40kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$250,000
KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION$100,000
HAYMARKET REGIONAL FOOD PANTRY$25,000
SERVING OUR WILLING WARRIORS$25,000
ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
STATION FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%BOOST OTHERS INC: $10k → 6%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%BOOST OTHERS: $10k → 6%SERVE OUR WILLING WARRIORS: $100k → 7%SERVE OUR WILLING WARRIORS: $40k → 7%CARRIED TO FULL TERM: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 11 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$2.2M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+90%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $956k · revenue +62%
  • AP
    AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $706k · revenue +30%
  • PW
    PRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $95k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CE
    CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +37%
  • AP
    ABANDONED PET RESCUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +90%
  • MM
    MACKENZIES MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bristow Barnyard Farm and Domestic Animal Rescue
Animals
2
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
3
Southside Spca

The Southside SPCA is a donor-supported organization that provides shelter, medical treatment, spay/neuter and adoption services to over 36,000 puppies, kittens, cats and dogs since 1975. The organization is a no-kill shelter operating…

Animals
4
Black Ops Rescue

Transforming the lives of shelter pets and veterans through compassionate assessment, compatible adoptions, and ongoing support.

Animals
5
Patuxent Animal Welfare Society

1. Run a spay/neuter/wellness clinic 2.Rescue, vet and adopt pets, socialize and adopt kittens 3. run a pet food bank 4. promote humane education

Animals
6
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
7
Animal Adoption & Rescue Foundation of Winston-Salem Inc

Aarf is a nonprofit organization serving the winston-salem area dedicated to finding loving homes for dogs and cats through rescue, foster care, veterinary services, adoption, and education.

Animals
8
Poquoson Animal Welfare Sanctuary Inc

We are dedicated to the rescue and placement of abandoned, abused and neglected cats in or around Poquoson. Spay/neuter is a priority along with providing food, shelter, medical care, rehabilitarion and adoption opportunities.

Animals
9
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke Inc

SWVA Wildlife Center's mission is to conserve Virginia's wildlife through rehabilitation and release while teaching care and respect of native species. We advocate for the protection of wildlife and wild places to ensure these magnificent…

Animals
10
Peace River Refuge & Ranch Inc

Forest Animal Rescue protects wildlife by preserving natural habitats for the safe release of rehabilitated animals and the rehabilitation and release of black bears.

Animals
11
Doe Eyes Animal Sanctuary and Rescue Inc

Doe Eyes Animal Sanctuary and Rescue is a 501c3 nonprofit organization located in the Washington DC-Maryland-Virginia area, that is committed to rescuing and rehabilitating any abused, neglected or in need animal. We are a loving furever…

Animals
12
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Keewaydin Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mackenzies Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $956,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATIONAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $706,400 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC+1 more: $20,000 · AnimalsServe Our Willing Warriors: $140,000 · Human ServicesServe Our…NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE …BOOST OTHERS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBOOST OTH…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 · OtherSERVING OUR WILLING WARRIORS: $50,000 · OtherRTJ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $65,000 · HealthTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthMACKENZIES MISSION: $7,500 · HealthPRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $95,000 · EnvironmentHaymarket Regional Food Pantry: $40,000 · Food & Nutrition
Recreation & Sports$956,000Animals$726,400Human Services$197,500Other$153,000Health$107,500Environment$95,000Food & Nutrition$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $956,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $706,400 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetServe Our Willing Warriors: $140,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetPRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $65,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHaymarket Regional Food Pantry: $40,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOOST OTHERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMACKENZIES MISSION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WOMEN AND FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Community Foundat…American Online Givin…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pivot Points Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pivot Points Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pivot Points Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pivot Points 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.

    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 16 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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