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Pledgeling Foundation
The PLEDGELING FOUNDATION operates a clearinghouse for donor-advised charitable donations to unrelated third-party organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 918 grants below total $31,554,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $40,302,822 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,748,422 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k379 grants · $2.6M
- $10k–50k418 grants · $9.0M
- $50k–250k103 grants · $11M
- $250k+18 grants · $9.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE FUTURES FOUNDATION | $1,600,610 |
| ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $790,935 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $775,651 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $748,109 |
| CITY OF HOPE - PARENT | $606,162 |
| BAMA WORKS FUND OF DAVE MATTHEWS BAND | $490,912 |
| MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $435,819 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $425,091 |
| EVERY KID SWIMS | $392,298 |
| CHRIS EVERT CHARITIES | $380,044 |
| WHYHUNGER | $344,702 |
| HARRY'S HEROES (CA) | $338,628 |
| AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES | $298,145 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ART AND LIVING | $292,643 |
| KASMAR FOUNDATION | $284,945 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
597 repeat relationships — 438 still active in FY2024, 159 since wound down; 443 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +145%- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +4%
SHARE OUR STRENGTH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +60%
Funded once
- BGBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $2.8M · revenue +0%
- GJGLOBAL JUSTICE JOURNAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $534k
- TITWLOHA INCone grant, 2021 · $461k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colonel James N Pritzker Library of the Citizen Soldier. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1724 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1724 of the 1,867 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE THIRST PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Every Kid Swims Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHRIS EVERT CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ART AND LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE BORIS LAWRENCE HENSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HARRY'S HEROES ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Wasserman Foundation · Granite Foundation Agency (Plg) · Entertainment Industry Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Allies in Arts · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Simple Generosity Foundation · Our Change Foundation · Spero Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pledgeling Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc — 16% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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