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The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$300
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$30k100%
FY20171$250kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$270kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Mississippi Foundation$250,00010%
Jones Valley Teaching Farm Center for Food Education$10,000115%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

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About The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation

How much does The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation give?
The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (96%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
Who are The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: University of Mississippi Foundation ($250k), Jones Valley Teaching Farm Center for Food Education ($10k).
Does The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation based?
The Dorothy Pihakis Charitable Foundation is based in AL.

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 3 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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