The Pad Project
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 82-2441730. Reported 68 grants totalling $212,900 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 The Pad Project, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 21% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $2,000. Half of what it reported fell between $1,000 and $3,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $27,202. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For the Girls | Silver Spring, MD | $28,100 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kwek Society Corp | Arlington, VA | $27,202 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dignity Grows Inc | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minas List Inc | Irvine, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thurman Perry Foundation | Mandeville, LA | $9,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Concord Rotary Endowment | Concord, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Go With the Flow Inc | Tucson, AZ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indigenous Women Rising | Albuquerque, NM | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Covenant House California | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pencils of Promise Incorporated | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| WOMEN4WOMEN Tempe Inc | Tempe, AZ | $4,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alexandria House | Los Angeles, CA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mai Movement Hawaii Inc | Honolulu, HI | $3,753 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Power Pump Girls Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African Immigrants Resources Center Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Womens Outreach | Little Rock, AR | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beaufort County Community College Foundation | Washington, NC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cooperative Extension Assoc in the State of New York | Voorheesville, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| East-West Center Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eden-Valley Watkins School District #463 | North Eden Valley, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neighborhealth Corporation | Boston, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Period Pantry Project | Columbus, OH | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cooperative Extension Association in the State of N Y | Schenectady, NY | $2,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Partnership Health Center Inc | Missoula, MT | $2,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Findley Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shawnee Community Foundation | Shawnee, OK | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Csunwrrc | Northridge, CA | $2,420 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aurora Public Library Foundation Inc | Aurora, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beauty Marks | Spartanburg, SC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Health Services of Addison County | Middlebury, VT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dearborn Education Foundation | Dearborn, MI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Flint Institute of Science & History | Flint, MI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Middlesex Community College | Middletown, CT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oceanside Unified School District | Oceanside, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Period Inc | Portland, OR | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Antonio Independent School District | San Antonio, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spring Woods High School | Houston, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foster Adopt Connect Inc | Independence, MO | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Laramie Reproductive Health | Laramie, WY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lyons-Decatur Northeast Foundation | Lyons, NE | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oakland-Craig Public Schools | Oakland, NE | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Source Lgbt Center Inc | Visalia, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Souris Valley United Way | Minot, ND | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Committee Against Domestic Abuse Inc | Mankato, MN | $1,425 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burlington West Burlington Area United Way Inc | Burlington, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Benjamin High School | Livonia, MI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bluefield Intermediate School | Bluefield, WV | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equal Period | La Crescentia, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Society of St Vincent Depaul Council of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Westhab Inc | Yonkers, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women Refugee Care | Providence, RI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nathan Hale High School Foundation | Seattle, WA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Al Mebane Middle School | Alachua, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Troy High School | East Troy, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Ridge Elementary Parent Teacher Organization | Mechanicsburg, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Georgia Southern University | Statesborough, GA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Junior League of Tallahassee Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knollwood Elementary | Rapid City, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Morse High School | Bath, ME | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North West Connect | Jackson, MI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Princeton Isd | Princeton, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ready Girls | Charlottesvle, VA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
3 of 63 (5%) 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.
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.
- The Kwek Society
Menstrual health product accessibility - For the Girls Inc
Support their menstrual cup education program - Dignity Grows Inc
To purchase and distribute menstrual hygiene products
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 63 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 | 4 | $35,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $29,450 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 42 | $148,450 | $2,460 |
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
17% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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
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.
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 $2,000 -- 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 California.
- 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 The Pad Project'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 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 42 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: 10573 W Pico Blvd Ste 73, Los Angeles, CA, 90064.
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