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The Pion Family Foundation at a glance

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The Pion Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$238kHuman Services$35kYouth Development$23kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$1kCrime & Legal$604Public Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$212
Median grant
3
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Westside Family YMCA$5,100
ADC Foundation Inc$2,000
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$212
Epilepsy Foundation$103
Boys Girls Club of Santa Monica$50
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Palisades PRIDE: $100 → 14%Connections for Children: $500 → 14%The Children's Partnership: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of The Pion Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Pion Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$157k · 12 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
26

Total granted

$157k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+41%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $92k · revenue +19%
  • WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
    3× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +204%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
    2× · 2017–2024 · $604 · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • TU
    The University of St Andrews
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • CS
    California State University Chico
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • CO
    City of Hope
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

—
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Gettysburg Elementary School Parent-Teacher Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE: $91,965 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEWestside Family YMCA: $33,875 · OtherWestside Family YMCAThe University of St Andrews: $26,100 · OtherThe University of St Andrews+15 more: $14,303 · Other+15 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $113,785 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION+5 more: $2,320 · EducationWOMEN HELPING YOUTH: $20,165 · Youth Development+1 more: $100 · Youth DevelopmentWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $3,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,600 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,312 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $868 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $403 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $350 · Health+1 more: $103 · HealthADC FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsMETROSQUASH NFP: $522 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $52 · Recreation & SportsDIRECT RELIEF: $1,035 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $250 · InternationalTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $500 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $500 · Human ServicesPalisades Pride Inc: $100 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$166,243Education$116,105Youth Development$20,265Health$7,636Recreation & Sports$2,574International$1,285Human Services$1,100Philanthropy$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $113,785 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $91,965 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING YOUTH: $20,165 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,312 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $868 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $604 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $522 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $403 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Sea Star Inc: $105 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg Elementary School Parent-Teacher Club: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Conrad N Hilton Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Tides FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
California Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pion Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pion Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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