Our Four Areas of Giving & FAQ
Celebrating the inherent value of every person
We support humanitarian initiatives led by nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. We currently partner with over 200 nonprofits in the United States and six continents around the world. Explore our Grantee Directory to learn about our partnerships.
Guided by the belief in the inherent dignity of all persons, the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation works to meet the basic human needs of the most marginalized members of the human family, including socioeconomically disadvantaged youth; the aged; persons with physical, emotional, and mental disabilities; and those with the fewest material resources.
In addition to the above, the Foundation seeks to serve religious communities and correlative organizations of Judeo-Christian beliefs. To this end, the Foundation strives to enact through its grantees the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty; clothe the naked; care for captives; shelter the homeless; visit the sick, and assist the mourning.
FAQs
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We are not affiliated with the Bill Pulte of the Bill Pulte Foundation and Twitter Philanthropy. Bill Pulte (@Pulte) is not a sanctioned representative of the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation, nor of our founder William J. Pulte (1923-2018).
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We are not affiliated with the The Pulte Family (@realPulteFamily) on Twitter.
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As an integral part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Pulte Institute of Global Development at the University of Notre Dame addresses global poverty and inequality through policy, practice, and partnership. It designs, implements, monitors, and evaluates projects and programs that promote human dignity, empowering the world’s poorest and vulnerable populations to flourish.
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The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation is wholly independent of Pulte Homes and PulteGroup, Inc. and was established through the personal generosity of William J. Pulte (1932-2018), Master Builder.
We support humanitarian initiatives in the United States and globally led by nonprofit organizations and educational institutions that align with our Four Areas of Giving: Care for Others | Education | Hunger & Thirst | Shelter.
The Foundation does not fund individuals, lobbying, political efforts, for-profit entities, or other grantmaking organizations.
In accordance with the Founder’s Judeo-Christian religious and moral beliefs, The Foundation will not grant monies to organizations that directly or indirectly, through their subsidiaries, support research, programming and services that disregard the inherent dignity of all persons, from which follows the right to life from conception to natural death.
No. The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. We do not directly fund individuals.
The Foundation does grant scholarships to individuals which are allocated directly through educational institutions, such as trade schools and universities. We currently support scholarships at the University of Notre Dame, Ferris State University, Academy of the Sacred Heart, Southeast Michigan Construction Academy, Industrial Arts Institute, and Mackinac Island Public Schools.
Resources for Individuals: If you are an individual in need of support, please visit www.211.org to access resources in your community.
Fraud Alert: The Foundation will never ask individuals to send money or provide financial information. If you’ve encountered a fraudulent request for funds or a have concerns regarding a scam, The Federal Trade Commission, a division of the United States Government, offers resources and consumer advice at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-you-were-scammed
The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation strives to enact through its grantees the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, care for captives, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, and assist the mourning. We seek to accomplish this in two ways.
Firstly, our Mission Giving Grants Program provides “sustenance for today.” This giving supports food banks, provides church repairs, purchases vehicles, supports programming, capacity building, general operating costs, etc. ($7,171,539 in 2023). Currently, we work with 200 hundred partners.
Secondly, the PFCF has embarked on two Long-term Transformational Housing projects, which will require substantial financial resources from the Foundation and outside partnerships. The PFCF Board of Directors’ decision in late 2021 to build our housing communities has precluded us from taking anything but a few new Mission Giving Grants each year since then. As of April 2024, we have approximately 128 foundations on our waiting list. We hope that as our assets grow and more is set aside for Mission Giving Grants, we can come alongside more of you in your philanthropic endeavors.
As for the remainder of 2024, we will not accept any new LOIs from new organizations for the Mission Giving Grants Program. We will revisit our situation for 2025 at the end of this year.