Funder Standing / The Pershing Square Foundation

The Pershing Square Foundation

NY · EIN 208068401 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

12 of 26 organizations The Pershing Square Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 49.3%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
49.3%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$250,000
Range $7,500 – $750,000
Repeat-dollar share
64.5%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
4
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,540,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$1,122,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,030,000
THE BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARDnew$1,000,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$790,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$650,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$630,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$550,000
AMCHAInew$500,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOnew$500,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$400,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$250,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$250,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$250,000
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NJ$250,000
CITIZENS ALLIANCEnew$250,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITYnew$250,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISnew$250,000
AMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY INC$200,000
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (LIMR)new$200,000
THE EDUCATION CULTURE AND NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL COMPANYnew$18,000
METASTASIS RESEARCH SOCIETYnew$15,000
THE GALIEN FOUNDATION$10,000
CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDnew$10,000
EYOL INCnew$10,000

Showing the 25 largest of 26 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 The Pershing Square Foundation 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.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 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

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.