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Pulley Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC | $50,000 |
| THE LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS | $50,000 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $50,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DARLINGTON SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOOD DEPOT SANTA FE | $40,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| CHATHAM HALL | $30,000 |
| GODS PANTRY | $30,000 |
| WILD SALMON CENTER | $30,000 |
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, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k 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
- CICENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +1%
- TBTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +29% · 32% of their budget
- WOWASHINGTON OPERA HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +108% · 88% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHAYSWOOD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +164%
- GPGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +16%
- BVBRAVO VAILone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
To inspire and nurture a love of theatre and the arts with the following mission: the maintenance of a permanent multi-arts and theatre facility. the sponsorship and coordination of education and cultural programming in visual arts,…
The purposes and objectives of the vilar performing arts center is to promote and develop awareness of and appreciation of the arts and to educate the general public about the arts through the ownership and operation of a theater by…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
We are a non-profit that creates positive change through the arts by bringing together people, businesses and organizations to create and enjoy cultural experiences.
Building community by celebrating the art and diversity of film.
Through all of its programs, richmond ballet strives to expand access to dance for the benefit of the entire community. at the heart of the organization's mission, to awaken, uplift, and unite human spirits, is the conviction that the…
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hayswood Foundation Inc. 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 44 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
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 CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds HAYSWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCK 4 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Claire Adair Hendrickson Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Pulley 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% 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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