Pledge the Pink Foundation
Bluffton, SC · EIN 27-1399712. Reported 126 grants totalling $2,179,061 to 61 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 Pledge the Pink Foundation, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G32) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 61 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,109. Half of what it reported fell between $6,469 and $20,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | Charleston, SC | $240,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beaufort Memorial Hospital Endowment Foundation | Beaufort, SC | $196,717 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | Frisco, TX | $162,463 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation | Spartanburg, SC | $135,050 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Cancer Connection | Greenville, SC | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $109,800 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | Hilton Head, SC | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation | Memphis, TN | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Presbyterian Hospital Foundation | Winston Salem, NC | $82,368 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Good Neighbor Free Medical Clinic | Beaufort, SC | $75,256 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Pink Houses of Hope | Burlington, NC | $75,072 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| For 3 Sisters | Olney, MD | $65,129 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mercy Health Partners | Muskegon, MI | $56,268 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $45,144 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alliance of Divine Love Inc | Tryon, NC | $45,072 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Step Sisters | Ashburn, VA | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lexington Medical Center Foundation Inc | West Columbia, SC | $31,607 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Princeton Healthcare System Foundation Inc | Plainsboro, NJ | $24,842 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marys Place By the Sea Inc | Ocean Grove, NJ | $24,295 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Metavivor Research and Support Inc | Middleton, WI | $23,490 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation | Blue Ash, OH | $21,282 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Breast Cancer Alliance Inc | Greenwich, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Project Renewal Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Iiibs Foundation | Brambleton, VA | $17,883 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Team Tiara | Allen, TX | $17,421 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Duke University Health System Inc | Durham, NC | $16,288 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Foundation Inc | Englewood, NJ | $15,197 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital | Danville, PA | $15,157 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer Inc | Peachtree Cor, GA | $15,012 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Upmc Chautauqua at Wca | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trinity Health Muskegon Breast Ctr | Muskegon, MI | $14,740 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loudoun Breast Health Network | Leesburg, VA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Taunia Oechslin Girls Night Out Foundation | Johnstown, PA | $11,622 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Peters Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $11,590 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bluffton Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine | Bluffton, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation | Lincoln, RI | $9,983 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gertrudes House | Douglasville, GA | $9,671 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sisters By Choice Inc | Lithonia, GA | $9,303 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gertrudes House Inc | Douglasville, GA | $9,108 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glory Hope & Life Inc | Gainesville, GA | $9,038 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation for Living With Breast | Cincinnati, OH | $8,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | Sarasota, FL | $8,701 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kootenai Health Foundation Inc | Coeur D Alene, ID | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rowan Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $7,920 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Cancer Research Foundation Inc | Munster, IN | $7,213 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pink Soles in Motion | Southlake, TX | $7,110 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shades of Pink Foundation California | Encinitas, CA | $6,904 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Casting for Recovery Inc | Bozeman, MT | $6,458 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $5,850 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maurer Foundation for Breast Health Education Inc | Melville, NY | $5,494 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 412 Thrive | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,252 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $5,003 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alliance of Divine Love Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vail Valley Charitable Fund Inc | Edwards, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Diva for a Day Foundation | Bernardsville, NJ | $4,406 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| York Health Foundation | York, PA | $3,974 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breast Friends Inc | Stroudsburg, PA | $3,858 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks | Springfield, MO | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faces of Courage Foundation | Tampa, FL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
29 of 61 (48%) 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 48 of 61 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 | 22 | $422,116 | $10,109 |
| 2022 | 28 | $655,039 | $16,250 |
| 2023 | 36 | $579,399 | $9,554 |
| 2024 | 40 | $522,507 | $9,484 |
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
41% of its giving went to organizations in South Carolina. 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
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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 $10,109 -- 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 South Carolina.
- 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 Pledge the Pink Foundation'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.
Address of record on the latest return: Post Office Box 3195, Bluffton, SC, 29910.
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