Missouri · Private foundation
The Pettus 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 92
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $908k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 80 to 89
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Pettus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 75 | $901k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $771k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $894k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $884k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $852k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 80 | $859k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Holy Nativity School | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kcaa Preschools of Hawaii | $27,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Stl Youth Jobs | $27,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Hawaii | $27,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawaii Meals on Wheels Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 180 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Pettus Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
How this is measured
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About The Pettus Foundation
- How much does The Pettus Foundation give?
- The Pettus Foundation reported 92 itemized grants totaling $907,500, out of $1,077,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 89 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Pettus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Human Services (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Pettus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc ($70k), International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care Inc ($70k), Holy Nativity School ($35k).
- Does The Pettus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pettus 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 Pettus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, McInerny Foundation--, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation.
- Where is The Pettus Foundation based?
- The Pettus Foundation is based in MO.
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