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The Ralph a Pfeiffer and Jane C Pfeiffer Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Ralph a Pfeiffer and Jane C Pfeiffer Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$325kHuman Services$306kArts & Culture$170kHousing & Shelter$155kHealth$105kFood & Nutrition$90kEducation$85kEmployment$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY PLACE$25,000
HOLY CROSS MISSION$25,000
IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY PROJECT$25,000
THE VILLAGE TRIP$25,000
CONSTELLATION THEATRE$15,000
THE ART LEAGUE$10,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$10,000
THE KEEGAN THEATRE$10,000
ST ANNE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN$10,000
JOSEPH'S HOUSE$10,000
HOUSE OF RUTH$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $130k) 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%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $30k → 14%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $25k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $25k → 14%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $20k → 14%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $15k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$1.0M
$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+34%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TF
    THE FAMILY PLACE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $136k · revenue +59%
  • MK
    MIRIAM'S KITCHEN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +148%
  • JH
    JOSEPH'S HOUSE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERITY OF NOTRE DAME
    one grant, 2017 · $85k
  • HC
    HOLY CROSS CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
2
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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3
Community of Hope

Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.

Community Improvement
4
Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…

Food & Nutrition
5
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
6
Jhp Inc

To help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless seek, obtain, and retain employment and secure housing.

Employment
7
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Light House Inc

To rebuild the lives of people in need in anne arundel county through service and compassion by providing shelter, preventing homelessness, and empowering individuals as they work toward self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
9
Community Kitchen

Providing food for people who are hungry, conversation for people who are lonely, rest for people who are struggling, and a voice for people in need.

Food & Nutrition
10
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
11
Coalition for the Homeless Inc

The coalition for the homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals and families. we believe that affordable housing, sufficient food and the chance to work for a living wage are…

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12
The Kitchen Inc

The kitchen, inc. brings stability and purpose to people who are homeless.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miriam's Kitchen; the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Keegan Theatre Company the Keegan Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FAMILY PLACE: $136,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACEIGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY PROJECT: $105,000 · OtherIGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY PROJECTHOLY CROSS MISSION: $100,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS MISSIONIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFATHER MCKENNA'S CENTER: $90,000 · OtherFATHER MCKENNA'S CENTERCONSTELLATION THEATRE: $90,000 · OtherCONSTELLATION THEATREUNIVERITY OF NOTRE DAME: $85,000 · OtherUNIVERITY OF NOTRE DAMEST ANNE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $85,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN+6 more: $130,000 · Other+6 moreMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $125,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S K…COVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPH'S HOUSE INC: $105,000 · HealthMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionHOUSE OF RUTH: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE VILLAGE TRIP INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART LEAGUE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Andrew Keegan Theatre Company The Keegan Theatre: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · International
Other$921,000Human Services$130,000Health$105,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Arts & Culture$75,000International$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE: $136,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $125,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE INC: $105,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE TRIP INC: $55,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobeMed NFP: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ART LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Andrew Keegan Theatre Company The Keegan Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VILLAGE TRIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GlobeMed NFP ↗
  • Who funds THE ART LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds The Andrew Keegan Theatre Company The Keegan Theatre ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ralph a Pfeiffer and Jane C Pfeiffer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph a Pfeiffer and Jane C Pfeiffer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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