Tennessee · Private foundation
The Pfeffer 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.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 56
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Pfeffer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 45 | $86k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $97k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $95k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $421k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Presbyterian Church Inc | $122,314 | 4 | n/a |
| Lipscomb University | $120,721 | 5 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee | $71,328 | 6 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $47,602 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Illinois University Foundation | $39,463 | 5 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $30,661 | 3 | 0% |
| Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East | $23,943 | 4 | 0% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $23,697 | 2 | 0% |
| Operation Andrew Group Inc | $19,911 | 1 | 2% |
| Scouting Art Collection Recovery Project Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pfeffer Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Servant Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Purity Foundation
How this is measured
About The Pfeffer Foundation
- How much does The Pfeffer Foundation give?
- The Pfeffer Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $86,090 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Pfeffer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Religion (27%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are The Pfeffer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Christ Presbyterian Church Inc ($122k), Lipscomb University ($121k), Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee ($71k).
- Does The Pfeffer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pfeffer 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 Pfeffer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is The Pfeffer Foundation based?
- The Pfeffer Foundation is based in TN.
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