Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Peirce Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,010,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Peirce Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 35 | $3.0M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $2.4M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $2.2M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.6M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $1.5M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit | $2,256,251 | 6 | 0% |
| Robert Morris University | $2,193,241 | 6 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $1,548,700 | 6 | 1% |
| Carlow University | $1,084,122 | 4 | 1% |
| Carnegie Institute | $1,004,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $906,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mary & Alexander Laughlin Children's Center | $656,411 | 6 | 7% |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $647,260 | 5 | 10% |
| Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania | $584,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Learning Disabilities Association of America | $150,855 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Peirce Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About The Peirce Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Peirce Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Peirce Family Foundation Inc reported 35 grants totaling $3,005,322 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Peirce Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (19%), Science & Tech (10%).
- Who are The Peirce Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit ($2.3M), Robert Morris University ($2.2M), Pittsburgh Symphony Inc ($1.5M).
- Does The Peirce Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Peirce Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Peirce Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation, Wp Snyder III Charitable Fund.
- Where is The Peirce Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Peirce Family Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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