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The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc

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.

$52k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$600k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving15$50k33%
FY202411$20k0%
FY202310$22k10%
FY202211$30k0%
FY202115$28k27%
FY202014$23kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$47kReligion$42kPhilanthropy$26kInternational$24kArts & Culture$23kHealth$7kSocial Science$4kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

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 Miami Foundation IncFL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc

How much does The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc give?
The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $52,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Religion (23%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Emory University ($18k), Thessalonica Agricultural & Industrial Institute (The American Farm School) ($15k), Bakehouse Art Complex Inc ($7k).
Does The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc 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 Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc based?
The Nicholas J Pisaris Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 25 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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