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Pink Aid Inc

Westport, CT · EIN 47-1031835. Reported 99 grants totalling $2,382,657 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$2,382,657granted, 2021-2023
91%of grantees funded again the next year
7%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Pink Aid Inc, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 91% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $31,000; the smallest was $5,150 and the largest $60,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
51 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Adelphi UniversityGarden City, NY$155,000332023
St Vincents Foundation IncBridgeport, CT$145,500332023
Norma Pfriem FoundationBridgeport, CT$140,300332023
Nassau Health Care Foundation IncEast Meadow, NY$121,000332023
Norwalk Hospital AssociationNorwalk, CT$116,000332023
Stamford HospitalStamford, CT$99,500332023
Breast Cancer Emergency Aid FoundationWestport, CT$94,000332023
Mercy Medical Center IncBaltimore, MD$94,000332023
Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition IncLindenhurst, NY$93,000332023
Coalition for Womens CancerSouth Hampton, NY$83,844332023
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$83,000332023
Yale New Haven HospitalNew Haven, CT$81,766332023
Hartford HospitalHartford, CT$77,000332023
Islip Breast Cancer Coalition IncIslip, NY$76,000332023
Northwell Health IncWestbury, NY$76,000332023
Central Suffolk Hospital FoundationRiverhead, NY$75,000332023
Lucias Angels IncSouthampton, NY$74,175332023
Maurer Foundation for Breast Health Education IncMelville, NY$72,500332023
Anns Place IncDanbury, CT$68,500332023
Huntington Hospital Dolan Family Health Center IncWestbury, NY$66,705222022
Connecticut Cancer Foundation IncOld Saybrook, CT$64,000332023
Brookhaven Health Care Services CorporationPatchogue, NY$55,117222022
West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition for Long Island IncWest Islip, NY$50,000332023
Hospital of Central Connecticut at New Britain General and Bradley MeNew Britain, CT$47,000332023
Latina Sisters Support IncCommack, NY$43,500222023
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical CenterHartford, CT$42,220332023
Strength for Life IncKings Park, NY$25,400332023
Danbury HospitalDanbury, CT$23,400222022
Casting for Recovery IncBozeman, MT$21,000332023
Gardners HouseHartford, CT$19,200332023
Mondays at Racine IncSayville, NY$16,000112023
Sereen Hair FoundationIslip, NY$15,000112023
Stony Brook Foundation IncStony Brook, NY$13,202222023
Middlesex HospitalMiddletown, CT$12,228222023
Cancer Care IncNew York, NY$12,200222023
Support Connection IncYorktown Hts, NY$12,000222023
Healing Meals Foundation CorporationBloomfield, CT$7,500112023
Bristol Hospital IncorporatedBristol, CT$5,500112022
The Griffin HospitalDerby, CT$5,400112022

34 of 39 (87%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 39 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.

Health Care
20 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
3 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Medical Research
1 org
Science & Technology
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202130$715,150$25,000
202235$775,960$24,000
202334$891,547$26,000

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

51% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.

New York
$1.2M
Connecticut
$1.0M
Maryland
$94K
Montana
$21K

Down to the city

Bridgeport, CT
$286K
Garden City, NY
$155K
Westbury, NY
$143K
Hartford, CT
$138K
East Meadow, NY
$121K
Norwalk, CT
$116K

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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.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. 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 Pink Aid Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 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: Po Box 5157, Westport, CT, 06881.

EIN 47-1031835 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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