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Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation

Name: Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
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.

202
grants reported: $534.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $535,446
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

increase access health people mental women awareness young

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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.

Where the money goes

Women's economic participation and workplace barrier removal
Mental health support for young people, often school-based
Civic engagement, voting participation, democracy protection
Computing and tech education access, AI awareness
Reproductive rights and reducing violence against women
Affordable child care and caregiving infrastructure

Typical grant

Median grant is about $535,000, with the middle half between $322,000 and $2 million. The eight-figure checks go to intermediaries and national advocacy anchors like Blue Meridian, Hopewell Fund, National Partnership for Women and Families, and a $242.5 million donor-advised transfer to National Philanthropic Trust for a Global Leaders Fund. University and research grants cluster at $500,000 to $3.8 million, and several grantees appear more than once in the same year, so repeat funding is common among organizations already in the portfolio.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT”
“TO INCREASE ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE”
“TO REMOVE BARRIERS THAT LIMIT FULL PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKPLACE, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN”
“TO INCREASE ACCESS TO COMPUTING EDUCATION”
“TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE BENEFITS OF FULL ACCESS TO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame academic work under computing education access, the theme funding Northeastern, Cornell, and Computing Research Association at $2M to $3.8M.
Youth mental health research fits their Harvard and University of Washington precedent; ask $500,000 to $600,000.
Tie labor or care economy research to "barriers that limit full participation in the workplace, especially for women."
Emphasize national scale and public awareness outputs, not local pilots; they fund field-level infrastructure.

Worth knowing: The money concentrates hard in DC and New York advocacy organizations and in fiscal sponsors like New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which take multiple checks each. University grants are a small slice and go to institutions with existing relationships, so the practical route is often through a funded intermediary rather than direct.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

National Philanthropic Trust3 grants · $257.5M
Hopewell Fund6 grants · $20.4M
Blue Meridian Partners1 grant · $17.0M
New Venture Fund11 grants · $16.4M
National Partnership for Women and Families3 grants · $15.6M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors3 grants · $9.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation3 grants · $8.4M
Center for Community Change3 grants · $7.0M
National Womens Law Center Fund Llc1 grant · $7.0M
States United Democracy Center2 grants · $7.0M

Giving over time

$8.1M

2022

$48.1M

2023

$478.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 202 grants.

$242.5M
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
To support the global leaders fund
$17.0M
Blue Meridian Partners · New York, NY · 2024
To raise public awareness of the benefits of full access to economic opportunities
$14.0M
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support civic engagement and participation
$10.0M
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2024
To remove barriers for people in the workplace, especially for women
$10.0M
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
To support family health and wellbeing fund
$7.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$7.0M
National Womens Law Center Fund Llc · Washington, DC · 2024
To remove barriers that limit full participation in the workplace, especially for women
$5.0M
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
To support select organizations working on women rights globally.
$5.0M
National Women'S Law Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$5.0M
Reproductive Freedom for All · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$5.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
To reduce violence against women
$5.0M
States United Democracy Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$4.7M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the headstream ecosystem initiative, a project aimed at fueling exploration and growth across the youth digital wellbeing ecosystem.
$4.0M
Bipartisan Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
Momsrising Education Fund · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
Ms Foundation for Women · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
National Domestic Workers Alliance · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
New America Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
The 19th News · Austin, TX · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
The Center for Reproductive Rights · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$4.0M
Workmoney Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
To provide general support
$3.8M
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
To increase access to computing education
$3.6M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$3.3M
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024
To increase access to computing education
$3.0M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
2024 employee matching gift contribution
$3.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
To raise public awareness of the benefits of full access to economic opportunities
$2.9M
School-Based Health Alliance · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$2.7M
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the ascend fund, a collaborative fund supporting efforts to educate and train women and girls about leadership and the political process on a non-partisan basis.
$2.5M
Food for Education Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$2.5M
Girls for Gender Equity · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$2.5M
Justice and Joy National Collaborative · Portland, OR · 2024
To provide general support
$2.5M
Management Leadership for Tomorrow · Bethesda, MD · 2024
To provide general support
$2.5M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$2.5M
Rewriting the Code · Durham, NC · 2024
To provide general support
$2.4M
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the civic (re)solve education fund, a project working to build a thriving democracy through organizations that support diverse and enduring civic capacity in communities throughout the united states.
$2.4M
School-Based Health Alliance · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the school-based health care coordination initiative project, seeking to increase access to high-quality health care in schools.
$2.3M
Rutgers University Foundation · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To support the center for american women and politics, providing data analysis and research on womens political participation.
$2.3M
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support civic engagement and participation
$2.0M
Surgo Health Pbc · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the exposing the invisible epidemic: equity-first youth mental health tracker project, educating about youth wellbeing via a reliable, comprehensive, and equity-focused measure of youth wellbeing.
$2.0M
Caring Across Generations · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$2.0M
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
To increase access to computing education
$2.0M
Executives Partnering To Invest in Children · Denver, CO · 2024
To increase access to affordable child care
$2.0M
Institute for Women'S Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$2.0M
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2024
To increase womens civic engagement
$2.0M
States United Democracy Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$2.0M
The Computing Research Association · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to computing education
$2.0M
Washington Center for Equitable Growth · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$2.0M
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support the decolonizing wealth project, a racial equity education program.
$2.0M
Moore Impact · Denver, CO · 2022
General support to advance the organization's mission to help changemakers solve some of the world's greatest challenges.
$2.0M
Seattle Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support the black future co-op fund, a project aimed at improving generational wealth, health, and well-being to washington individuals and organizations have been systematically under-resourced.
$1.9M
Surgo Health Pbc · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$1.9M
Advertising Council · New York, NY · 2023
For additional support of the sound it out campaign, a project aimed to help parents and caregivers have meaningful conversations about emotional wellbeing with their middle schoolers.
$1.8M
Guttmacher Institute · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$1.6M
National Partnership for Women and Families · Washington, DC · 2023
To support npwf's general operations.
$1.5M
Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024
To raise public awareness of the benefits of full access to economic opportunities
$1.5M
Local Initiatives Support Corporation · New York, NY · 2024
To increase access to affordable child care
$1.5M
Representwomen · Silver Spring, MD · 2024
To provide general support
$1.5M
America Achieves · New York, NY · 2023
To support place-based economic and workforce education and development.
$1.5M
Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the maven collaborative project, aimed at raising awareness and conducting research on economic justice.
$1.5M
The Computing Research Association · Washington, DC · 2023
To support efforts to increase number of women pursuing and completing phds in computer science.
$1.4M
Rutgers University Foundation · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
To increase womens civic engagement
$1.3M
The Jed Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$1.3M
Voterunlead · Hartsdale, NY · 2023
To support voterunlead's general operations.
$1.2M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support civic engagement and participation
$1.1M
The Jed Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To provide technical assistance, training, and education for implementation of jed high school.
$1.0M
All Raise · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase access to educational opportunities
$1.0M
Camfed International · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
Canopy Planet Society · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
Halfthestory · Western Springs, IL · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$1.0M
Inkomoko · Clinton, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
Last Mile Education Fund · Lafayette, CO · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To raise public awareness of the benefits of full access to economic opportunities in the tech sector
$1.0M
Responsible Innovation Labs · Dover, DE · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To remove barriers that limit full participation in the workplace, especially for women
$1.0M
Array Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support array alliance's general operations.
$1.0M
Camfed International · 2023
To support camfed international's general operations.
$1.0M
Canopy Planet Society · 2023
To support canopy's general operations.
$1.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the clean slate initiative project, which advocates for and supports implementation of laws that support clearance of criminal records post-sentence in the united states.
$1.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
To support a fund aimed at transforming care systems and supports for caregivers so all families can thrive and live with dignity in a prosperous and equitable economy.
$1.0M
Think of US · Washington, DC · 2023
To support think of us' general operations.
$950,000
Advertising Council · New York, NY · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$840,000
New American Leaders · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$800,000
Inseparable · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$800,000
Inseparable · Washington, DC · 2023
To support inseparable's general operations.
$750,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To reduce political violence
$750,000
Management Leadership for Tomorrow · Bethesda, MD · 2024
To raise public awareness of the benefits of full access to economic opportunities in the tech sector
$750,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To increase womens civic engagement
$750,000
Opportunity Labs Foundation · Brielle, NJ · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people
$750,000
Management Leadership for Tomorrow · Bethesda, MD · 2023
To provide education and skill development for historically underrepresented people in the tech sector.
$750,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To support nvfs project, the league, in its efforts to raise public awareness of womens leadership and underscore the importance of equal representation.
$700,000
Mental Health Leadership Initiative · Metuchen, NJ · 2023
To support the kennedy forum's general operations.
$700,000
The Trevor Project · West Hollywood, CA · 2023
To support the trevor project's general operations.
$650,000
Me Too International · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To reduce violence against women
$650,000
The Trevor Project · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
To provide general support
$600,000
Lexington Observer · Lexington, MA · 2023
To support a "local news hub" project aimed at increasing the capacity of local newsrooms to report on womens political leadership.
$580,800
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
To increase access to mental health support for young people

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