The Pi Foundation Inc
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 35-2191048. Reported 81 grants totalling $36.1M to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Pi Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 39% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $21,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $200,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $12.4M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $14.9M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lds Church | Salt Lake City, UT | $14.2M | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund | St Petersburg, FL | $12.4M | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Npt Charitable Asset Tr | Jenkintown, PA | $1,690,379 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $1,411,594 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| B H Roberts Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $1,027,416 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Logan City | North Logan, UT | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tifie Humanitarian Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $832,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $760,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Our Rescue | Sandy, UT | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Archdiocese of Kansas City | Kansas City, KS | $400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Granite Education Foundation Inc | S Salt Lake, UT | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Living Planet Inc | Draper, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rods Heroes Inc | West Jordan, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| More Good Foundation | Provo, UT | $187,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leadership Educational Achievement and Prosperity Inc | Smithfield, UT | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah State University Foundation | Logan, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $88,700 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dell Loy and Julie Hansen Scholars Foundation | Logan, UT | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Forever Fighters | Pasco, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Summit Journeys Inc | Holladay, UT | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tabithas Way | Spanish Fork, UT | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kiwanis Foundation of Topsail Islan D Area Inc | Surf City, NC | $37,421 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Charityvision International Inc | Provo, UT | $34,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Cancer Fund of Dallas Inc | Dallas, TX | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wasatch Academy | Mt Pleasant, UT | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Christmas Box International | S Salt Lake, UT | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mothers Without Borders | Provo, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| One Voice Childrens Choir | Sandy, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rise and Rebuild Foundation | Sandy, UT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shelterkids Inc | S Salt Lake, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Kids Foundation | Ogden, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salt Lake Community College Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Utah Food Bank | S Salt Lake, UT | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Padma Organization | Butte, MT | $12,151 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bountiful Community Food Pantry | Bountiful, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Davis Education Foundation | Farmington, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith Matters Foundation Inc | Meridian, ID | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Venture Outdoors Inc | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Visual Art Institute | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tres Islas Orphanage Fund Incorporated | Sandy, UT | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Action Services and Food Bank Inc | Provo, UT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Heritage Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $6,308 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humanitarian Experience Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $6,290 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah State Junior Livestock Show Inc | Spanish Fork, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,956 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aspen Academy | Greenwood Village, CO | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
17 of 48 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $5,486,995 | $20,750 |
| 2022 | 18 | $19.6M | $17,500 |
| 2023 | 23 | $4,993,652 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $5,932,312 | $18,575 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
55% of its giving went to organizations in Utah. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $21,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Utah.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Pi Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 405 S Main Ste 800, Salt Lake City, UT, 84111.
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