New York · Private foundation
The Pershing Square Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 66
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $415M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations The Pershing Square Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $9.6M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $18M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $14M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $46M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $22M | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mount Sinai Hospital | $20,504,426 | 1 | 1% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $12,100,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Shed NYC Inc | $8,000,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Vassar College | $4,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Rockefeller University | $3,549,808 | 5 | 0% |
| Signature Theatre Company Inc | $3,255,219 | 3 | 15% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $2,232,542 | 4 | 1% |
| Recidiviz Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Cornell University | $1,930,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York University | $1,792,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Pershing Square Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Pershing Square Foundation
- How much does The Pershing Square Foundation give?
- The Pershing Square Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $10,932,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Pershing Square Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (22%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are The Pershing Square Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Mount Sinai Hospital ($21M), Robin Hood Foundation ($12M), Shed NYC Inc ($8.0M).
- Does The Pershing Square Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pershing Square 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Pershing Square Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Pershing Square Foundation based?
- The Pershing Square Foundation is based in NY.
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