· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THRIVE | $15,000 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MV COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CRANE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- 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 SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- 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 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Copley Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pacer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pacer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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