PLEDGELING FOUNDATION

EIN 462440594 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

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DAF assets
$4.71M
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$36.46M
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$58.98M
received into DAFs
Payout rate
774.3%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
not reliable
funds held at year end
Average account
assets per fund

At 774.3%, this sponsor granted several times its year-end balance. That is the signature of a pass-through platform: contributions are routed onward almost immediately, so little is ever held.

DAF assets by year

$1.2M
FY2019
$1.7M
FY2020
$2.6M
FY2021
$2.5M
FY2022
$4.7M
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$8.4M
FY2019
$9.8M
FY2020
$16.6M
FY2021
$17.9M
FY2022
$36.5M
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive. Years marked fall in the 2020–21 pandemic giving surge, when contributions into donor-advised funds rose sharply across the sector; treat them as an unusual period rather than a baseline.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 1,978 grant lines totalling $60.1M across 2019–2024 — $30K per line.

$2.5M of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 4% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
Bancroft Global DevelopmentEIN 541955545 DC$2.8M
St Jude Children's Research HospitalEIN 620646012 TN$1.6M
Charities Aid Foundation of America runs a DAF programEIN 431634280 VA$1.5M
Share Our StrengthEIN 521367538 DC$1.2M
Feeding AmericaEIN 363673599 IL$1.2M
One Tree Planted IncEIN 464664562 VT$1.0M
Luanne Elise FoundationEIN 844189482 OK$912K
Thirst ProjectEIN 352339840 CA$801K
Save The ChildrenEIN 060726487 CT$774K
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyEIN 135644916 NY$723K
Globalgiving runs a DAF programEIN 300108263 DC$711K
World Wildlife Fund IncEIN 521693387 DC$562K
Global Justice Journal FoundationEIN 861992518 IL$534K
Clooney Foundation for JusticeEIN 813006634 CA$495K
United Nations Foundation IncEIN 582368165 DC$464K

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.