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The Pacer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THRIVE | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MV COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| CRANE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| COPLEY HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BSBROOKS SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +61%
DIRECT RELIEF6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +20%- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IAINTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $15k
- THTHE HOTCHKISS FUNDone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ICINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -69%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Education and Research
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pintler Pets. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Copley Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · Latkin Charitable Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · William H Kearns Foundation · The Nurture Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Pacer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Copley Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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