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Find who already funds work like yours. Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
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12 funders with a record of paying for “pencil”
Where the money went The Community Foundation of Middle → Pencil: $552K across 10 grants, latest 2024 Dollar General Literacy Foundation → Pencil Foundation: $550K across 3 grants, latest 2025 Milton and Denice Johnson Family → Pencil: $520K across 4 grants, latest 2025 The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation → The Pencil Box Inc: $245K across 7 grants, latest 2024 The Ayco Charitable Foundation → Pencil Inc: $235K across 4 grants, latest 2025 Scarlett Family Foundation → Pencil: $203K across 2 grants, latest 2024 Jpmorgan Chase Foundation → Pencil Inc: $175K across 4 grants, latest 2024 The Counihan Family Foundation → Pencil Tennessee: $170K across 4 grants, latest 2025 Infosys Foundation USA → Pencil Inc: $162K across 3 grants, latest 2024 United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc → Pencil Foundation: $103K across 4 grants, latest 2024 Enchiridion Foundation → Pencil Foundation: $80K across 4 grants, latest 2025 The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc → Pencil Inc: $80K across 3 grants, latest 2025 Scarlett Family Foundation → Pencil Foundation: $180K across 2 grants, latest 2022 Infosys Foundation USA → Pencil Inc: $80K across 2 grants, latest 2022 The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc → Pencil: $25K across 1 grant, latest 2022 The Community Foundation of Middle: $552K on this topic. Open the funder. The Community Foundation of M… $552K Dollar General Literacy Foundation: $550K on this topic. Open the funder. Dollar General Literacy Found… $550K Milton and Denice Johnson Family: $520K on this topic. Open the funder. Milton and Denice Johnson Fam… $520K Scarlett Family Foundation: $383K on this topic. Open the funder. Scarlett Family Foundation $383K The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation: $245K on this topic. Open the funder. The Anne and Henry Zarrow Fou… $245K Infosys Foundation USA: $242K on this topic. Open the funder. Infosys Foundation USA $242K The Ayco Charitable Foundation: $235K on this topic. Open the funder. The Ayco Charitable Foundation $235K Jpmorgan Chase Foundation: $175K on this topic. Open the funder. Jpmorgan Chase Foundation $175K The Counihan Family Foundation: $170K on this topic. Open the funder. The Counihan Family Foundation $170K The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc: $105K on this topic. Open the funder. The Meringoff Family Foundati… $105K United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc: $103K on this topic. Open the funder. United Way of Middle Tennesse… $103K Enchiridion Foundation: $80K on this topic. Open the funder. Enchiridion Foundation $80K Pencil: received $1.3M on this topic Pencil $1.3M Pencil Foundation: received $914K on this topic Pencil Foundation $914K Pencil Inc: received $490K on this topic Pencil Inc $490K The Pencil Box Inc: received $245K on this topic The Pencil Box Inc $245K Pencil Tennessee: received $170K on this topic Pencil Tennessee $170K Pencil Inc: received $162K on this topic Pencil Inc $162K Pencil Inc: received $80K on this topic Pencil Inc $80K 12 funders, 7 recipients, grants matching “pencil” only. Ribbon width is proportional to the total given; each funder has its own colour (smaller funders in gray). Hover a name to isolate its flows, click a funder to open it. Drag to move around; zoom with the buttons, a double-click, or the wheel after clicking the map. Largest: $6,500 to PENCIL — to utilize pencil's digital platform, pencil me in, to link community members with metro nashville public schools through volunteerism.
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Largest: $10,000 to THE PENCIL BOX INC — general operating support
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Largest: $80,000 to Pencil Inc — student education
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Largest: $250,000 to PENCIL — reimagining community spaces in mnps
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Largest: $63,500 to PENCIL INC — community & human services
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Largest: $200,000 to PENCIL FOUNDATION — dg pencil box: provi
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Largest: $50,000 to PENCIL TENNESSEE — to support regular operations in education
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Largest: $76,100 to PENCIL INC — general operating support
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Largest: $30,000 to PENCIL INC — support of the charitable purposes of this organization
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Largest: $125,075 to PENCIL FOUNDATION — operations support
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Largest: $20,000 to PENCIL FOUNDATION — general support for operations
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Largest: $61,000 to PENCIL FOUNDATION — program opns (cif)
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