· Private foundation
The Pfeifer Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Pfeifer Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Pfeifer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT | $10,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| FII NATIONAL | $5,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| NRDC | $5,000 |
| MATH ACTION | $5,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIESORG | $5,000 |
| WAWC HEALTH CARE | $3,000 |
| PETEN HEALTH | $3,000 |
| BARAKA GIRLS | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL PEACE INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| MARIN FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +26%
EARTHJUSTICE6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%- GVGLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UOU OF A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
A Well-Fed World is a plant-based hunger relief and climate advocacy organization. We nourish people in need strengthen global food security and promote plant-based feeding and farming solutions that uplift marginalized communities and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MATHACTION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT ↗
- Who funds Oakland Community Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PETEN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PEACE INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Abortion Fund of Ohio ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TRI-COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pfeifer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pfeifer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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