New York · Nonprofit
FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC
FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,866,768 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($99,933,623). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programFOUNDERS PLEDGE INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$114M
Recipients
227
Contributions on record
$215M
Donors on record
33
Payments out are 0.53x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeshared funders
- Walker Family Foundationportfolio match
- Arrow Impactportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $538k → $8.4M.
15 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
94% of FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Walker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arrow Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James Beard Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aphorism Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Einhorn Collaborativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Casey & Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lorenzini Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nasdaq Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nate and Elissa Lowery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gitlab Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Founders Pledge Ltd · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC?
- FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,866,768 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($99,933,623). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $214,866,768 in grants to FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $99,933,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing