The Pfeifler Family Foundation
Palm Beach, FL · EIN 86-1138674. Reported 109 grants totalling $1,041,604 to 59 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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 Pfeifler 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,137. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,146; the smallest was $100 and the largest $210,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | Deerfield, MA | $360,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Palm Beach Day Academy | Palm Beach, FL | $187,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| West Palm Golf Community | West Palm Beach, FL | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundatio | Jackson, WY | $75,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League | West Palm Beach, FL | $60,287 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Trustees of Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Society of Msk | New York, NY | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering | New York, NY | $15,900 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| American Agora Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glades Foundation | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| James B Lee Scholarship Fund | New York, NY | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kent School | Kent, CT | $8,146 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Buckley School | New York, NY | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Pennys Flight Foundation | Glen Cove, NY | $7,772 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach | Palm Beach, FL | $7,750 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Animal Medical Center | New York, NY | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Red Sneakers for Oakley | Palm Beach, FL | $6,808 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | $6,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Glades Academy | Pahokee, FL | $5,974 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| ASPCA | New York, NY | $5,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Inner City Scholarship Fund | New York, NY | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Bone Marrow Foundation | New York, NY | $5,054 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Alsac | Memphis, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alzheimer's Research & Prevention Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospice of the Western Reserve | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hss Benefit for Pediatrics | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of the City of New York | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| New Hope Charities | West Palm Beach, FL | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Alliance for Eating Disorders | West Palm Beach, FL | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Museum of Natural History | New York, NY | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jdrf International | New York, NY | $2,520 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Afar Inc | Davidson, NC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Breakthrough New York | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of the High Line | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opportunity Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| North Shore Land Alliance | Mill Neck, NY | $2,045 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Episcopal School | New York, NY | $1,518 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Viscardi Center | Albertson, NY | $1,030 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association | Dallas, TX | $1,025 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| B&t Historic Building Preservation | Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Breast Cancer Alliance | Greenwich, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Family Services | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City Meals on Wheels | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Enriched Nyc | Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ny Presbyterian | New York, NY | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Palm Beach Zoo | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ric Bradshaw for Sheriff | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Franklin Pierce University | Rindge, NH | $575 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club | Glen Cove, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Pan-Mass Challenge | Needham, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Playground Partners Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Florida PBS | Boynton Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ussga Menard Fund | Elmsford, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | Hagerstown, MD | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach County Pba | West Palm Beach, FL | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Palmb Beach County Council of Firefighters | West Palm Beach, FL | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
26 of 59 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 50%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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.
- Glades Academy
DONATION - ICE CREAM TRUCK RENTAL FOR SCHOOL (PAID TO KONA ICE)
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 64 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $234,750 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $83,690 | $2,250 |
| 2023 | 26 | $222,629 | $1,500 |
| 2024 | 20 | $110,021 | $1,690 |
| 2025 | 26 | $390,514 | $2,500 |
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
39% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,137. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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 Pfeifler Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 325 Ridgeview Drive, Palm Beach, FL, 33480. 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.
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