Maryland · Private foundation
Pleasants Family 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.
- $93k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Pleasants Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Frederick County Maryland Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $974k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Pleasants Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 4 | $43k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $34k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission of Love Charities Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Frederick Arts Council Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Historical Society of Frederick County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Home Builders Care Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pleasants Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Pleasants Family Foundation Inc give?
- Pleasants Family Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $92,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Pleasants Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (47%), Philanthropy (20%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Pleasants Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mission of Love Charities Inc ($26k), The Frederick Arts Council Inc ($25k), The Historical Society of Frederick County Inc ($10k).
- Does Pleasants Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pleasants Family 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 Pleasants Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Pleasants Family Foundation Inc based?
- Pleasants Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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