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FY 2023

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2023EIN 56-2307147

The Pew Charitable Trusts

PHILADELPHIA, PANTEE: T30Founded 2002Website

mission statement

Improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life.

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Total Revenue

$408.9M

FY 2023

Program Spending

88.2%

of total expenses

Known Funders

2019–2024 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2023)

The Numbers

$1.4B

Total Assets

$1.0B net

31.92 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2023

Active Programs

FY 2023

907

Total Employees

FY 2023

Funding Track Record

Backed by 80 Institutional Funders

$1.6B raised across 249 grants · +$31.5M committed (2019–2024 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 19 states (2019–2024 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
The Pew Memorial Trust	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$980,409,169
J Howard Pew Freedom Trust	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$201,438,796
Mabel Pew Myrin Trust	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$123,841,306
J N Pew Jr Charitable Trust	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$97,121,156
The Medical Trust	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$59,940,782
Mary Anderson Trust	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$13,426,579
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	PRINCETON, NJ	$11,505,256 +$1,437,189 committed
John Templeton Foundation	WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA	$8,545,898 +$5,539,420 committed
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation	MENLO PARK, CA	$7,571,017 +$1,250,930 committed
John S and James L Knight Foundation Inc	MIAMI, FL	$7,250,000 +$12,000,000 committed

Total tracked: $1,565,849,648 across 249 grants · +$31,468,206 committed across 34 commitments (2019–2024 filings)

Totals reflect grants as reported on funder tax returns. Timing may not match recipient revenue: funder and recipient fiscal years often differ, and grants paid by a funder in one year may be recognized by the recipient in a different year.

Programs (FY 2023)

What They Do

$248.0M in expenses

Improving public policy. We study and promote nonpartisan policy solutions for pressing and emerging problems affecting the American public and the global community.

$46.1M in expenses

Invigorating civic life. We support national initiatives that encourage civic participation. In our hometown of Philadelphia, we support organizations that create a thriving arts and culture community and institutions that enhance the well-being of the region's neediest citizens.

$41.4M in expenses

Informing the public. Pew Research Center, our Washington, D.C.-based charitable subsidiary, is home to most of our information initiatives. It uses impartial, fact-based public-opinion polling and other research tools to track important issues and trends.

— in expenses

Conference center revenue

Financial History