Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Argus Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $684k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 35
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Argus Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $684k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $615k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $310k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| County Theater Inc | $200,250 | 4 | 7% |
| Navajo Hopi Health Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Snipes Farm and Education Center | $155,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Public Radio Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bucks County Housing Group Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Conscious Alliance | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seacology | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Americans for Native Americans | $90,000 | 4 | 8% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($779k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Argus Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Argus Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Argus Fund 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 The Argus Fund
- How much does The Argus Fund give?
- The Argus Fund reported 32 grants totaling $684,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Argus Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Animals (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Argus Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: County Theater Inc ($200k), Navajo Hopi Health Foundation Inc ($175k), Snipes Farm and Education Center ($155k).
- Does The Argus Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Argus Fund 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 The Argus Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation, Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Argus Fund based?
- The Argus Fund is based in PA.
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