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The Pelson Foundation

Name: The Pelson Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

34
grants reported: $186,979
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,811
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 34 reported grants, largest first.

$10,750
The Metropolitan Musuem · New York, NY · 2025
organization needs
$10,250
The Metropolitan Musuem · New York, NY · 2024
organization needs
$10,000
College of New Jersey · Ewing Township, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$10,000
Foundation of Defence · Washington, DC · 2025
Organizational needs
$10,000
Urban Arts · New York, NY · 2025
organization needs
$10,000
Foundation for the Deaf · Buffalo, NY · 2024
organization needs
$10,000
Urban Arts · New York, NY · 2024
organization needs
$10,000
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center · New York, NY · 2023
Organiztional needs
$10,000
Urban Arts · New York, NY · 2023
Organiztion needs
$10,000
The Metropolitan Musuem · New York, NY · 2022
Organization needs
$10,000
Urban Arts · New York, NY · 2022
Organiztion needs
$8,250
Congregation Emanu-El of New York · New York, NY · 2024
organization needs
$7,740
Congregation Emanu-El of New York · New York, NY · 2023
Organiztional needs
$6,500
Sound Start Foundation · Mountain Lakes, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$6,150
Congregation Emanu-El of New York · New York, NY · 2025
organization needs
$6,000
Chamber Music Society · New York, NY · 2025
organization needs
$6,000
The Metropolitan Musuem · New York, NY · 2023
Organization needs
$5,622
Temple B'Nai Abraham · Livingston, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$5,025
Sound Start Board Foundation · Mountain Lakes, NJ · 2022
Organization needs
$5,000
College of New Jersey · Ewing Township, NJ · 2024
organization needs
$5,000
Sound Start Foundation · Mountain Lakes, NJ · 2024
organization needs
$5,000
College of New Jersey · Ewing Township, NJ · 2023
Organization needs
$3,092
Temple B'Nai Abraham · Livingston, NJ · 2024
organization needs
$1,000
Morris Museum · Morristown, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$1,000
Morris Museum · Morristown, NJ · 2024
organization needs
$650
Jewish Federation · New York, NY · 2025
organization needs
$650
Jewish Federation · New York, NY · 2024
organization needs
$650
Jewish Federation · New York, NY · 2023
Organziotnal needs
$600
The Seeing Eye · Morristown, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$500
Arnold P Gold Foundation · Fort Lee, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$500
Arnold P Gold Foundation · Fort Lee, NJ · 2024
organization needs
$500
The Seeing Eye · Morristown, NJ · 2024
organization needs
$300
Opera at Florham · Covent Station, NJ · 2025
organization needs
$250
Foundation for Morristown · Morristown, NJ · 2025
organization needs

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.