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The Pardus Family Foundation

West Palm Beach, FL · EIN 04-3540017. Reported 99 grants totalling $98,050 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$98,050granted, 2021-2024
45organizations funded
68%of grantees funded again the next year
$592,371assets, 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. The Pardus Family Foundation 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $300 and $1,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
63 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
33 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
Alzheimer's Association of MassachusettsWaltham, MA$33,000442024
Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, ME$12,000442024
Northfield Mount Hermon SchoolMount Hermon, MA$6,000332023
Dana Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA$3,600442024
Ibis Charities FoundationWest Palm Beach, FL$3,000442024
Judicial WatchWashington, DC$3,000442024
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$3,000332023
The Salvation ArmyBoston, MA$3,000332024
New England Baseball Club IncNeedham, MA$2,500112024
Boys & Girls Club of Cape CodMashpee, MA$2,000442024
Hooks for Heroes CtMonroe, CT$2,000222024
Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenRanson, WV$2,000222022
Tunnel to Towers FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$2,000222023
Jennifer Riquier Scholarship FundWillimantec, CT$1,500332023
American Heart AssociationPhoenix, AZ$1,000442024
Muscular Dystrophy AssociationWashington, DC$1,000442024
Paralyzed Veterans of AmericaTopeka, KS$1,000442024
Pengree SchoolSouth Hamilton, MA$1,000112021
Pingree SchoolSouth Hamilton, MA$1,000112022
The Arthritis FoundationWashington, DC$1,000442024
The Salvation ArmyWest Palm Beach, FL$1,000112021
Trustridge HospiceWest Palm Beach, FL$1,000222023
Tunnel to TowersPhiladelphia, PA$1,000112024
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$1,000112021
Parkinson Research FoundationWashington, DC$900332024
New England Pga FoundationBoylston, MA$800222022
American Lung AssociationPhiladelphia, PA$700332024
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesMilford, NH$700332024
Special Olympics FloridaClermont, FL$600222022
The Als AssocationBoone, IA$600222022
American Diabetes AssociationMerrifield, VA$500222023
American Parkinson DiseaseMerrifield, VA$500112022
Cape Cod Times Needy FundHyannis, MA$500112023
Jennifer Requier Scholarship FundWillimantec, CT$500112024
Our Lady of Loretto SchoolNovato, CA$500112022
St Patrick Catholic ChurchPalm Beach Gardens, FL$500112022
The USOWashington, DC$500222022
American Lung Association in FloridaLewiston, ME$300112021
AmvetsWashington, DC$300112022
Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach CountyRiviera Beach, FL$300112021
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesTopeka, KS$300112021
South Carolina Swim ClubMt Pleasant, SC$200112021
American Legion Post 19Willimantic, CT$100112024
Cape Cod Senior Babe Ruth LeagueS Dennis, MA$100222022
Cape Cod Senior Babe RuthDennis, MA$50112024

27 of 45 (60%) 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 68%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants
Diseases & Disorders
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
5 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$21,250$500
202230$29,150$500
202322$24,600$500
202420$23,050$500

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. 55% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$54K
Maine
$12K
District of Columbia
$7K
Florida
$6K
Connecticut
$4K
Pennsylvania
$4K
Tennessee
$3K
West Virginia
$2K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc6 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. 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 Massachusetts.
  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 The Pardus Family Foundation'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: 7939 Cranes Pointe Way, West Palm Beach, FL, 33412. 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 04-3540017 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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