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The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust

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.

$143k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$34,515
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$8k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$141k50%
FY20243$50k33%
FY20234$19k75%
FY20224$29k75%
FY20213$79k33%
FY20206$339k67%
FY20198$51k75%
FY201811$114k82%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$706kEducation$46kHealth$44kPhilanthropy$31kCommunity Improvement$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHuman Services$11kInternational$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CT
CO
VA
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 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 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($234k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAspen Art Museum: $371,143 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $202,483 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Wildfire Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNechama - Jewish Response to Disaster: $14,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThird Option Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Theatre Workshop Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest 11th Street Block Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBank Street College of Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEtm-Colorado Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSpeed Art Museum: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Are Family Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant House: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's International Zionist Organization: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSongwritingwithinc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Lyme: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnderson Ranch Arts Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Oaks Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFreaks Action Network Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHigh Jump: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransportation Alternatives Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Rabin Medical Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $450 over 1y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust

How much does The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust give?
The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $143,216 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Education (5%), Health (5%).
Who are The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aspen Art Museum ($371k), Whitney Museum of American Art ($202k), Northwell Health Foundation ($35k).
Does The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust 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 Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust based?
The Paul & Erin Pariser Charitable Trust is based in CO.

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 42 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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