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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 47-2022288

The Purpose Foundation

A private foundation in Malvern, PA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 6 grants and $7,500 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

7 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $7,500

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $92,883

  • Tax year 2024

    $4,500

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $81,612

  • Tax year 2023

    $3,100

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $58,840

  • Tax year 2022

    $2,800

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $46,948

  • Tax year 2021

    $2,700

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $38,779

  • Tax year 2020

    $1,900

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $30,558

  • Tax year 2019

    $1,800

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $28,210

Grants paid in 2025

6 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Lunchbox FundLos Angeles, CA

    Grant to another 501(c)(3) org

    $1,500
  2. WateraidNew York, NY

    Grant to another 501(c)(3) org

    $1,500
  3. Children's Scholarship Fund PhiladePhiladelphia, PA

    Grant to another 501(c)(3) org

    $1,500
  4. Planned Parenthood Federation of AmNew York, NY

    Grant to another 501(c)(3) org

    $1,500
  5. Penn Medicine NeurosciencePhiladelphia, PA

    Grant to another 501(c)(3) org

    $1,000
  6. St Michael's Episcopal ChurchGeneseo, NY

    Grant to another 501(c)(3) org

    $500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Human services1 grant $1,500100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York4 grants $5,000
  2. Pennsylvania2 grants $2,500

Officers, directors and trustees

5 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Edwin R BoyntonPRESIDENT/TR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Thomas D BoyntonVP/SECRETARY Hours 0Pay $0
  • Thomas BlameyVP/ASST SECY Hours 0Pay $0
  • Elspeth W BoyntonVICE PRESIDE Hours 0Pay $0
  • Ainsley R BoyntonVICE PRESIDE Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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