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David R Picerne Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROPHY COLLEGE PREPATORY | $20,000 |
| THREE SQUARE FOOD BANK | $13,000 |
| TEMPLE CHILDRENS ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Christ Church School | $10,000 |
| SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE | $7,500 |
| American Cancer Society | $7,500 |
| Grand Canyon Conservancy | $5,000 |
| Pinecroft School | $5,000 |
| FOR KIDS SAKE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS | $2,540 |
| OPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND | $2,500 |
| CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF OUR LADY OF HOPE | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of David R Picerne Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- APA PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE4× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +24%
- DVDESERT VIEW LEARNING CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +0%
- CCCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- NPNEVADA PTNRSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTHone grant, 2021 · $15k
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundationone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
- USUS SKI SNOWBOARD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.
In an atmosphere of mutual respect and responsibility, the oaks school prepares students to meet the world with the combined wisdom of an intelligent mind, a skilled hand, and a compassionate heart.
Park city day school educates children from preschool to 8th grade with a mission to prepare and inspire our students to lead great and giving lives.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
The mission of valley christian schools is to equip students to be culture changers for christ by delivering academic excellence, facilitating spiritual growth, and building lifelong community.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Jazz Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DESERT VIEW LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUST ONE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Christ Church School Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THE PINECROFT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Early Education Cooperative Preschool ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BASSET HOUND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PHOENIX FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOR KIDS' SAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO YOUTH SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Arizona Tuition Connection Inc · Raiders Foundation Nv · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Three Square · Mgm Resorts Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David R Picerne Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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