Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Pacer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $145k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $107k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $130k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $110k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $106k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $123k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks School | $99,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Thrive Inc | $93,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Shore Country Day School | $42,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Storyteller Childrens Center Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Elon University | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Country Animal League Inc | $19,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Middle School | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($164k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pacer Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 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
How this is measured
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About The Pacer Foundation
- How much does The Pacer Foundation give?
- The Pacer Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $154,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Pacer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Youth Development (17%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Pacer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Brooks School ($100k), Thrive Inc ($93k), Shore Country Day School ($42k).
- Does The Pacer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pacer Foundation 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 Pacer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation.
- Where is The Pacer Foundation based?
- The Pacer Foundation is based in MA.
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