Alabama · Private foundation
Pleiad Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Pleiad Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $489k 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 | 36 | $1.1M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $629k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $339k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.8M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $1.6M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $933k | 38% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham-Southern College | $652,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The University Foundation | $533,000 | 9 | 36% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $330,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Railroad Park Foundation | $260,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Huntingdon College | $260,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Baylor School | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freshwater Land Trust | $207,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $142,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community on the Rise | $95,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Uab Athletics Foundation | $90,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pleiad Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Pleiad Foundation
- How much does Pleiad Foundation give?
- Pleiad Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,054,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pleiad Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (24%), Education (23%), Health (19%).
- Who are Pleiad Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Birmingham-Southern College ($653k), The University Foundation ($533k), United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($330k).
- Does Pleiad Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pleiad Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pleiad Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Protective Life Foundation.
- Where is Pleiad Foundation based?
- Pleiad Foundation is based in AL.
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