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The Pew Charitable Trusts
Founded in 1948, The Pew Charitable Trusts uses data to make a difference.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 535 grants below total $140,624,110 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $159,837,945 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,213,835 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $299k
- $10k–50k167 grants · $3.8M
- $50k–250k243 grants · $31M
- $250k+82 grants · $106M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pew Research Center | $38,100,000 |
| Conservation International Foundation | $6,429,418 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $5,625,190 |
| Children's Crisis Treatment Center | $3,500,000 |
| CP 2023 | $3,250,000 |
| Esperanza Health Center Inc | $3,200,000 |
| ProPublica | $3,061,593 |
| Pew Research Center | $2,500,000 |
| Heights Philadelphia | $2,250,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $1,862,914 |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | $1,648,763 |
| Middlebury College | $1,641,908 |
| R Street Institute | $1,500,000 |
| The Ocean Foundation | $1,200,000 |
| Center for Families and Relationships | $1,040,675 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $17.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
636 repeat relationships — 251 still active in FY2025, 385 since wound down; 155 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PRPew Research Center9× · 2017–2025 · $362M · revenue +17% · 99% of their budget
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $60M · revenue +99%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College5× · 2018–2025 · $42M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- 1D10000 DEGREESone grant, 2022 · $7.9M · revenue +19% · 36% of their budget
- NLNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
- TBTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INCone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independent Sector and the most unlike its peers is Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1050 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1050 of the 1,295 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Pew Research Center ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ELECTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The University of the Arts · The Barra Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Resources Legacy Fund · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Wilderness Society · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Western Conservation Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Pew Charitable Trusts funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
- Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.