The PEW Charitable Trusts

The Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit, is the sole beneficiary of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph Newton Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. Honoring their parents’ religious conviction that good works should be done quietly, the original Pew Memorial Foundation was a grant making organization that made donations anonymously. Today The Pew Charitable Trusts is a global non-governmental organization with three broad goals: • Improve public policy by conducting rigorous analysis, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause and insisting on tangible results; • Inform the public by providing useful data that illuminate the issues and trends shaping our world; • Invigorate civic life by encouraging democratic participation and strong communities. 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.