The Sarah Min and Matt Pincus Foundation
At a glance
This funder does not accept unsolicited applications. The foundation chooses the organisations it funds itself.
Key takeaways
- The foundation accepts no unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected, so a cold approach is unlikely to be considered, and the filing gives no further application steps.
- Its typical grant falls between $25,000 and $650,000, with a median of $75,000, so a request sized near the middle of that range fits its usual giving, though its largest grant was about $790,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
- Repeat support is a large part of its giving, with 54% of its grant dollars in the latest filing going to organisations it had also funded in an earlier filing, so an existing connection is likely to matter.
- The filings show grants mainly in New York and California, but no geographic focus is stated, so that pattern should not be read as a rule about who may apply.
- Organisations that have no route to preselection should not send an unsolicited request, since the foundation does not accept them.
Overview
The Sarah Min and Matt Pincus Foundation is a US private foundation based in Wilmington, DE.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The filings show grants to a varied group of charitable organisations, with most recorded as general and unrestricted support. Recipients include cultural and public-space organisations, universities and medical institutions, environmental organisations, and community, civic and social-justice groups. Other recorded purposes include immunotherapy research for pancreatic cancer and a merit programme, fellowships in fiction, general nonfiction or biography for women or people of colour, and a teen programme. The filings do not establish a general subject-specific funding priority or detailed eligibility criteria. Contributions are limited to preselected charitable organisations, and unsolicited requests are not accepted.
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in New York and California.
How to apply
The filing says contributions are made only to preselected charitable organisations and unsolicited requests are not accepted; it gives no further application steps.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 54% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 34 grants to organisations were $75,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2022–2024.
Grant dollars by state
1 other state: <1%
- The largest single recipient received 41% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2024, 54% of grant dollars went to organisations The Sarah Min and Matt Pincus Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- 9% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 10 grants in tax year 2024 by size
Median $133k (tax year 2024)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- Friends of the High Line · General & Unrestricted$791,6672024 tax year
- Cornell University · General & Unrestricted$650,0002024 tax year
- NewYork-Presbyterian Fund · General & Unrestricted$225,0002024 tax year
- Surfrider Foundation · General & Unrestricted$200,0002024 tax year
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Immunotherapy research for pancreas cancer and the MERIT program$166,6672024 tax year
- Lee Initiative · General & Unrestricted$100,0002024 tax year
- Cornell University · General & Unrestricted$100,0002024 tax year
- Fund for the Guggenheim Fellowships · Fellowship in either Fiction, General Nonfiction, or Biography for a woman or a person of color$70,0002024 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Matthew Pincus — Trustee
- Sarah Min — Trustee
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
3 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 tax year | $1,858,013 | $1,448,334 | $52,907,981 | Filing for 2022 tax year |
| 2023 tax year | $2,056,571 | $1,613,334 | $55,696,540 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
| 2024 tax year | $2,830,527 | $2,398,334 | $60,397,817 | Filing for 2024 tax year |
Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Sources
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Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
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Contact
- Wilmington, DE