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Pyramid Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$268k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Pyramid Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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
FY202313$268k31%
FY20228$2.5M25%
FY202111$159k9%
FY202011$118k9%
FY201912$130k8%
FY201817$134k29%
FY201718$116kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$3.1MEducation$179kInternational$60kHuman Services$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kEmployment$9kCommunity Improvement$7kYouth Development$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($487k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pyramid Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLehigh University: $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cheshire Academy: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrysalis Center: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's Cancer Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Venice: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Fund of New York: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEcs Supportive Fund Management: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Santa Fe Ballet: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSid Jacobson Jewish Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Police Activities League Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 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 17.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC11× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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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How do I get to Pyramid Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pyramid Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Pyramid Foundation Inc

How much does Pyramid Foundation Inc give?
Pyramid Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $268,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pyramid Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (90%), Education (5%), International (2%).
Who are Pyramid Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Northwell Health Inc ($2.5M), Northwell Health Foundation ($210k), Lehigh University ($125k).
Does Pyramid Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pyramid Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pyramid Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Pyramid Foundation Inc based?
Pyramid Foundation Inc 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 32 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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