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Puff Trixie Charitable Pvt Fdn

Detroit, MI · EIN 22-6866487. Reported 106 grants totalling $347,000 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$347,000granted, 2021-2024
42organizations funded
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,338,982assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Puff Trixie Charitable Pvt Fdn did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $4,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $14,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
89 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Vincent's SeminaryPhiladelphia, PA$38,000442024
Seton Hill UniversityGreensburg, PA$21,000442024
Westmoreland Community Food BankDelmont, PA$18,000442024
Franciscan UniversitySteubenville, OH$16,000442024
St Sebastian SchoolBelle Vernon, PA$16,000442024
The Watchful ShepherdMcmurray, PA$16,000442024
St John the Evangelist Regional Catholic SchoolUniontown, PA$14,000442024
Washington Area Humane SocietyEighty Four, PA$14,000442024
Geibel Middle Senior High SchoolConnellsville, PA$12,000442024
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food BankDuquesne, PA$12,000332024
Rostraver Public LibraryBelle Vernon, PA$12,000442024
Angels Journey Animal RescueBelle Vernon, PA$10,000442024
Little Sisters of the Poor of PaPittsburgh, PA$10,000332024
Monessen Public LibraryMonessen, PA$10,000442024
Mount Pleasant Public LibraryMt Pleasant, PA$10,000332024
Animal Friends of North Central West VirginiaMorgantown, WV$8,000222023
Animal Friends of WestmorelandYoungwood, PA$8,000332024
Fayette County Community Action AgencyUniontown, PA$8,000332024
Scottdale Free Public LibraryScottdale, PA$8,000332024
Serra Catholic High SchoolMckeesport, PA$8,000442024
Emmaus Community of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$6,000332024
Verna Montessori SchoolMount Pleasant, PA$6,000222024
Washington County Community FoundationEighty Four, PA$6,000112024
Animal Friends IncPittsburgh, PA$4,000222024
Animal Rescue LeaguePittsburgh, PA$4,000222022
Berkley County Humane SocietyMartinsburg, WV$4,000222022
Carnegie Free Library of ConnellsviConnellsville, PA$4,000222022
Clelian HeightsGreensburg, PA$4,000112024
Clelian Heights SchoolGreensburg, PA$4,000222023
Fred Rogers Center Latrobe Art CenterLatrobe, PA$4,000222023
Holy Family FoundationPittsburgh, PA$4,000222024
Pathways Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania IncWashington, PA$4,000222023
St Anthony Charitable FdnWexford, PA$4,000112021
St Anthony School ProgramsWexford, PA$4,000222024
Belle Vernon Library AssociationBelle Vernon, PA$2,000112024
Belle Vernon Public LibraryNorth Belle Vernon, PA$2,000112022
Berkeley County Humane SocietyMartinsburg, WV$2,000112024
Friends of the Uniontown Public LibraryUniontown, PA$2,000112024
Mary and Alexander Laughlin Children's CenterSewickley, PA$2,000112024
Uniontown Public LibraryUniontown, PA$2,000112022
United States Catholic ConferenceLinwood, PA$2,000112024
West Newton Public LibraryWest Newton, PA$2,000112023

31 of 42 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
14 grants
Animal Welfare
11 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Religion
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$76,000$2,000
202224$50,000$2,000
202325$110,000$4,000
202431$111,000$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 91% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$317K
Ohio
$16K
West Virginia
$14K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Pittsburgh Foundation14 shared recipientsCeasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsThe United Way of Southwestern7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Puff Trixie Charitable Pvt Fdn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 75000, Detroit, MI, 48275. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 22-6866487 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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