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PNK Inc at a glance

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PNK 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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$69kArts & Culture$28kAnimals$22kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$13kPhilanthropy$11kCivil Rights$9kEnvironment$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$-53666
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND ZOO$10,000
KQED$5,000
ASIAN ART MUSEUM$5,000
THE STANFORD FUND$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
IMMIGRATION INSTITUE OF BAY AREA$1,500
Golden Gate Bird Alliance$1,000
RIO GRANDE NATURE CENTER$500
MIREHAVEN GIVES BACK$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%ORANGE CTY AAPI COMM ALLIANCE: $1k → 10%IMMIGRATION INSTITUE OF BAY AREA: $2k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $2k → 17%NEW MEXICO Dream Center: $1k → 14%ASIAN AMERICANS ADV JUSTICE: $2k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%IMMIGRATION INSTITUE OF BAY AREA: $2k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $3k → 22%Golden Gate Bird Alliance: $2k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%OAKLAND ZOO: $10k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $3k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%UPENN Perelman School of Medicine: $3k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2k → 22%KQED: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2k → 22%KQED: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2k → 22%KQED: $3k → 10%THE PENN FUND: $2k → 22%KQED: $3k → 10%THE PENN FUND: $2k → 22%GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2k → 10%KQED: $3k → 10%KQED: $3k → 10%KQED: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of PNK Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

PNK Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 14 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$118k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+50%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsCivil RightsEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +89%
  • CS
    CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +11%
  • GG
    Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +461%

Funded once

  • UP
    UPENN Perelman School of Medicine
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • AH
    Albuquerque Health Care for the Hom
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADV JUSTICE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
4
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
The Peregrine Fund Inc

To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mirehaven Gives Back. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $18,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PE…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $17,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LEL…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,300 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE PENN FUND: $14,000 · OtherTHE PENN FUNDALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $8,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BAN…IMMIGRATION INSTITUE OF BAY AREA: $7,500 · OtherIMMIGRATION INSTITUE OF BAY AREASOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & PUBLIC: $4,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & PUBLICBERKELY FOOD PANTRY: $3,500 · OtherBERKELY FOOD PANTRYUPENN Perelman School of Medicine: $2,500 · OtherRIO GRANDE NATURE CENTER: $2,500 · OtherAlbuquerque Health Care for the Hom: $2,500 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADV JUSTICE: $2,000 · Other+11 more: $8,840 · Other+11 moreKQED INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…+1 more: $500 · InternationalGolden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc: $10,060 · EnvironmentBaykeeper: $1,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $11,000 · Animals+1 more: $250 · AnimalsDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $10,150 · PhilanthropyMIREHAVEN GIVES BACK: $1,100 · Philanthropy
Education$52,300Other$55,340Arts & Culture$27,000International$16,500Environment$11,560Animals$11,250Philanthropy$11,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKQED INC: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $10,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc: $10,060 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaykeeper: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIREHAVEN GIVES BACK: $1,100 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO DREAM CENTER OF ALBUQUERQUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTune In To Nature org: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Baykeeper ↗
  • Who funds MIREHAVEN GIVES BACK ↗
  • Who funds RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO DREAM CENTER OF ALBUQUERQUE ↗
  • Who funds GAPA FUND ↗
  • Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
  • Who funds Tune In To Nature org ↗
  • Who funds OIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization PNK Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from PNK Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home