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Pumpkin 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.

$516k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$4.4MHealth$2.5MEducation$1.9MInternational$1.2MPhilanthropy$205kHuman Services$102kScience & Tech$100kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC$250,000
DOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
COLBURN SCHOOL$40,000
PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS$25,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$25,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$25,000
CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
STORY CORP$25,000
CEDILLE CHICAGO$25,000
NEW CANAAN BEAUTIFICATION LEAGUE$10,000
PREP FOR PREP$5,000
NEW YORK CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION$5,000
WMHT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IT TAKES PHILLY INC: $5k → 7%MULTICULTURAL BRIDGE: $10k → 12%MULTICULTURAL BRIDGE: $4k → 12%MATERIAL AID AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $250k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $250k → 12%ETHOS: $5k → 16%GOOD SHEPARD SERVICES: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $75k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
WV
TN
DC
MS
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 32 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
47

Total granted

$8.1M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

66%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • MM
    MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +139% · 40% of their budget
  • BW
    BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue 0%
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is It Takes Philly. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 82 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
41/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $2,999,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INCBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $460,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $145,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $160,000 · Arts & CultureICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,000,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SI…BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION I…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125,000 · EducationCRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC: $120,000 · Education+5 more: $201,500 · Education+5 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $900,000 · InternationalInternatio…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $75,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGH…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · International+2 more: $20,000 · InternationalCORNELL UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AFFAIRS AND DEVELOPMENT: $200,000 · OtherDOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS: $100,000 · OtherCHICAGO CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherSTORY CORP: $50,000 · OtherHEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC: $50,000 · OtherFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC: $50,000 · OtherOMPRAKASH FOUNDATION: $37,300 · OtherNew York Civil Rights Coalition Inc: $30,000 · Other+33 more: $176,908 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $125,000 · Human Services+5 more: $37,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $375,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $440,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+5 more: $18,700 · Health
Arts & Culture$3,764,000Education$3,446,500International$1,045,000Other$769,208Human Services$662,000Philanthropy$575,000Health$508,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $2,999,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $900,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $500,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $460,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $440,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $375,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCornell University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNew York Civil Rights Coalition Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE: $14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLifting Hands International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOff-The-Grid Missions: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN BEAUTIFICATION LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonrisas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetIT TAKES PHILLY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Jewish Communal FundThe Velmans Foundatio…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Berkshire Bank Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Carson Family Charita…Massachusetts Bankers…Cambridge Savings Cha…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncAmalgamated Charitabl…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Carson Family Charitable Trust · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Pumpkin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pumpkin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fairview Hospital: 3% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sonrisas Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Caspar Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 82 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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