Arizona · Private foundation
Pivotal Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $310,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 47
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $92M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Pivotal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $674k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $2.7M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $2.1M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $1.9M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $9.2M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $998k | 51% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $741k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $8,375,788 | 7 | 3% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $774,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Defense Priorities Foundation | $500,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Pars Equality Center | $492,000 | 7 | 4% |
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $425,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ballet Arizona | $385,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $370,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $359,036 | 5 | 0% |
| National Iranian American Council | $301,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pivotal Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Moreno Family Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · American Express Foundation · Otto & Edna Neely Foundation · Tw Lewis Foundation
How this is measured
About Pivotal Foundation
- How much does Pivotal Foundation give?
- Pivotal Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $2,703,765 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Pivotal Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), International (7%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Pivotal Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($8.4M), Barrow Neurological Foundation ($774k), Defense Priorities Foundation ($500k).
- Does Pivotal Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pivotal 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 Pivotal Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Thunderbirds Charities.
- Where is Pivotal Foundation based?
- Pivotal Foundation is based in AZ.
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