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The Pagon Family 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.

$66k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
88%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$29,112
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 88% of the organizations The Pagon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$66k40%
FY20248$61k88%
FY20234$7kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$74kEducation$30kArts & Culture$20kFood & Nutrition$8kPhilanthropy$4kInternational$1kEnvironment$1kHuman Services$700

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pagon Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCase Western Reserve University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBluecoats Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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How do I get to The Pagon Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pagon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Pagon Family Foundation

How much does The Pagon Family Foundation give?
The Pagon Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $66,312 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does The Pagon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are The Pagon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Case Western Reserve University ($30k), Playhouse Square Foundation ($12k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($8k).
Does The Pagon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pagon Family 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.
Where is The Pagon Family Foundation based?
The Pagon Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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