Funder Standing / Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

IN · EIN 356644088 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

69 of 255 organizations Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 29.2%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
29.2%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$35,000
Range $100 – $1,500,000
Repeat-dollar share
78.7%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
UMOM New Day Centers$1,503,000
Friends of Indy Animals$1,088,340
American Journalism Project$1,050,000
The Nature Conservancy - Arizona$854,000
Arizona State University Foundation for New American University$725,769
Alliance for Companion Animals$600,000
Society of St Vincent de Paul - Phoenix$576,500
White River Alliance aka Upper White River Watershed Alliance Inc$501,500
Indianapolis Zoo$500,000
Friends of the Verde River$485,000
The Nature Conservancy - Indiana$475,200
Maricopa County Community College District Foundation$452,914
Ivy Tech Foundation$450,788
Trustees of Indiana University$367,502
The Parks Alliance of Indianapolis aka Indianapolis Parks Foundationnew$325,000
National Center for State Courtsnew$300,000
Desert Botanical Garden$275,000
Arizona Community Foundation$265,000
Pilgrim Rest Foundationnew$256,500
Indianapolis Art Center$250,200
Phoenix Zoo$250,000
Conservation Law Center$242,400
Hoosier Environmental Council$225,200
Gannett Company Inc dba Arizona Republic$225,000
FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic$175,000

Showing the 25 largest of 255 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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