Ohio · Private foundation
The Pearce Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $121k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Pearce Foundation 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.
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 | 7 | $67k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $52k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $77k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $46k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $104k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $88k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $52k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $79k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Wesleyan College | $137,150 | 6 | n/a |
| The Charitable Foundation of Salem Community Hospital | $60,000 | 1 | 75% |
| Kent State University | $54,376 | 7 | n/a |
| Brightside Project Inc | $38,000 | 6 | 4% |
| University of Mount Union | $35,758 | 6 | 0% |
| Ohio Northern University | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Westminster College | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salem Historical Society Salem Historical Society | $14,150 | 2 | 7% |
| Miami University | $10,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Baldwin Wallace University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Wesleyan College | $137,150 | 6 | n/a |
| The Charitable Foundation of Salem Community Hospital | $60,000 | 1 | 75% |
| Kent State University | $54,376 | 7 | n/a |
| Brightside Project Inc | $38,000 | 6 | 4% |
| University of Mount Union | $35,758 | 6 | 0% |
| Ohio Northern University | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Westminster College | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salem Historical Society Salem Historical Society | $14,150 | 2 | 7% |
| Miami University | $10,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Baldwin Wallace University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wesleyan College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Salem Preservation Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thiel College | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sustainable Opportunity Development Center | $9,900 | 1 | 4% |
| Robert Morris University | $9,485 | 2 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $6,528 | 2 | 0% |
| Salem Community Pantry | $6,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Youngstown State University Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Erie College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Walsh University Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Burchfield Homestead Society Inc | $1,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Malone University | $1,277 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Pearce Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Salem Community Foundation Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Ella Weiss Educational Fund · Flor Navarro Family Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Charles Koch Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Firstenergy Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About The Pearce Foundation
- How much does The Pearce Foundation give?
- The Pearce Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $121,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Pearce Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Philanthropy (27%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Pearce Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allegheny Wesleyan College ($137k), The Charitable Foundation of Salem Community Hospital ($60k), Kent State University ($54k).
- Does The Pearce Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pearce Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Pearce Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Salem Community Foundation Inc, The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation, Premier Bank Foundation.
- Where is The Pearce Foundation based?
- The Pearce Foundation is based in OH.
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