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The Pangburn Foundation XXXXX0006

Chicago, IL · EIN 75-6042630. Reported 38 grants totalling $1,569,778 to 20 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$1,569,778granted, 2021-2025
20recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$7,959,793assets, 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 Pangburn Foundation XXXXX0006 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 $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $120,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 and Up
6 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
CASA Manana IncFort Worth, TX$425,000552025
Van Cliburn Foundation IncFort Worth, TX$240,000222025
Fort Worth Opera Association IncFort Worth, TX$200,000442025
The CliburnForth Worth, TX$120,000112023
Fort Worth Museum of Science and HistoryFort Worth, TX$100,000112021
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers FoundationFort Worth, TX$100,000442025
Hope Farm IncFort Worth, TX$75,116552025
Texas Health Resources FoundationArlington, TX$75,000112022
Breckenridge Library and Fine Arts FoundationBreckenridge, TX$46,000222024
Mayfest IncFort Worth, TX$40,000112021
Swenson Memorial Museum of Stephens CountyBreckenridge, TX$40,000112022
Cristo Rey Fort Worth Catholic High SchlFort Worth, TX$20,000112021
Fort Worth Public Library FoundationFort Worth, TX$17,115112021
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County FoundationFort Worth, TX$16,047222025
Amphibian Productions IncFort Worth, TX$16,000222025
Hill School of Fort Worth IncFort Worth, TX$10,000112021
Stage West TheatreFort Worth, TX$10,000112025
Coram Deo Academy IncLewisville, TX$7,500112021
W I Cook Foundation IncFort Worth, TX$7,000112025
Meotown Animal RescueForth Worth, TX$5,000112022

8 of 20 (40%) 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 58%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 32 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.

Arts & Culture
21 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$309,615$18,557
20228$345,116$40,000
20236$293,047$37,500
20247$299,000$25,000
20259$323,000$20,000

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

Fort Worth, TX
$1.3M
Forth Worth, TX
$125K
Breckenridge, TX
$86K
Arlington, TX
$75K
Lewisville, TX
$8K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Texas Inc12 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of North Texas (tax10 shared recipientsAnn L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes9 shared recipientsCrystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  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 Pangburn Foundation XXXXX0006'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: 10 S Dearborn IL1-0111, Chicago, IL, 60603. 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 75-6042630 · 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.

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