Washington · Private foundation
Pivotal Philanthropies 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.
- $48M
- Granted FY2023
- 62
- Grants FY2023
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 93%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 80 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 42 organizations, $48M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $4,700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 46
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 12
- Total assets, FY2023
- $7.4B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 93% of the organizations Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 46 | $36M | 93% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $3.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Meridian Partners Inc | $17,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| National Partnership for Women and Families | $15,600,000 | 2 | 10% |
| States United Democracy Center Inc | $7,000,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Center for Community Change | $7,000,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Panorama Global | $5,874,500 | 3 | 7% |
| School-Based Health Alliance | $5,838,000 | 3 | 31% |
| National Women's Law Center | $5,000,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All | $5,000,000 | 1 | 27% |
| The 19th News | $4,450,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Management Leadership for Tomorrow | $4,000,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 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: Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Skoll Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation
- How much does Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation give?
- Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $48,063,902 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 46 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Civil Rights (8%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Blue Meridian Partners Inc ($17M), National Partnership for Women and Families ($16M), States United Democracy Center Inc ($7.0M).
- Does Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pivotal Philanthropies 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 Philanthropies Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Foundation to Promote Open Society.
- Where is Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation based?
- Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation is based in WA.
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