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The Pack Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$56k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$41kHuman Services$23kArts & Culture$11kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$2k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOKIDHUNGRYSHARE OUR STRENGTH$10,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INCENTIVE$10,000
TOPS BOX FOODS$10,000
BRONX PROJECT ARTS TO ALVIN ALLEY DANCE FOUNDATION$5,400
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$5,000
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH$5,000
CHARITYWATER$3,121
WNYC (NPR RADIO NYC)$2,500
KQED (NPR RADIO SAN FRANCISCO)$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITYWATER: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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4
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
5
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
9
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

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10
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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12
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Friends School; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOKIDHUNGRYSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 · OtherNOKIDHUNGRYSHARE OUR STRENGTHEQUAL JUSTICE INCENTIVE: $10,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INCENTIVECOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $10,000 · OtherCOMMON SENSE MEDIABRONX PROJECT ARTS TO ALVIN ALLEY DANCE FOUNDATION: $5,400 · OtherBRONX PROJECT ARTS TO ALVIN ALLEY DANCE FOUNDATIONSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCHVASSAR COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEWNYC (NPR RADIO NYC): $2,500 · OtherKQED (NPR RADIO SAN FRANCISCO): $2,500 · Other+1 more: $750 · OtherTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 · EducationTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISC…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR J…+1 more: $500 · EducationTOP BOX FOODS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTOP BOX FOO…ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 · Arts & CultureCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $3,121 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 · Health
Other$51,150Education$25,500Food & Nutrition$10,000Arts & Culture$4,400Human Services$3,121Health$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOP BOX FOODS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $3,121 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pack Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pack Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 16 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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