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Pulse

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.

$1k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$10k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Pulse funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$1k50%
FY20235$65020%
FY202213$7k46%
FY20217$5k43%
FY20208$6k25%
FY20195$3k0%
FY201811$7k73%
FY201713$18kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$29kHuman Services$8kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$1kCrime & Legal$700Arts & Culture$250Housing & Shelter$200Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
DC
OK
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pulse supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $24,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Heart Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Diabetes Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Child and Family Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Lifesaving Foundation: $2,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLange Foundation: $1,925 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Environmental Media Associationinc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPaw Works Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestside German Shepherd Rescue of Los Angeles: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Farming Association: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Pulse

How much does Pulse give?
Pulse reported 2 grants totaling $1,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pulse fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Human Services (17%), Animals (11%).
Who are Pulse's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($24k), White Heart Foundation ($5k), Children's Diabetes Foundation ($3k).
Does Pulse fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pulse 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 Pulse?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Pulse based?
Pulse is based in CA.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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