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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.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$333kEducation$218kFood & Nutrition$113kAnimals$58kArts & Culture$55kHuman Services$43kHousing & Shelter$36kRecreation & Sports$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $83k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROPHY COLLEGE PREPATORY$20,000
THREE SQUARE FOOD BANK$13,000
TEMPLE CHILDRENS ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION$10,000
SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS SCHOOL$10,000
Christ Church School$10,000
Individual grant recipient$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
PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS: $3k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NV: $10k → 13%Catholic Charities of Southern NV: $10k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
NV
RI
CA
UT
MD
AZ
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of David R Picerne Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 0%.

David R Picerne Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$877k · 24 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
17

Total granted

$877k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    A PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +68%
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • SA
    SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • NP
    NEVADA PTNRSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • US
    US SKI SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
100 Club of Arizona

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.

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2
Prescott Valley Charter School

To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.

Education
3
The Oaks School

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.

Education
4
Park City Day School

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.

Education
5
Ball Charter Schools(Dobson)

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.

Education
6
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
The Peak School

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…

Education
9
International School of Arizona

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…

Education
10
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

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.

Education
11
Valley Christian Schools

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.

Education
12
University Cooperative School

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Country Day School; 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.
05the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FDTION: $300,000 · OtherPHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FDTIONBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $60,000 · OtherBROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORYSAINT THERESA CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherDESERT VIEW LEARNING CENTER: $30,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Other+30 more: $260,066 · Other+30 moreSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,540 · Human ServicesTHREE SQUARE: $58,000 · Food & NutritionA PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE: $53,000 · AnimalsARIZONA BASSET HOUND RESCUE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsChrist Church School Inc: $20,000 · EducationTHE PINECROFT SCHOOL INC: $9,000 · EducationEarly Education Cooperative Preschool: $5,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,500 · EducationCHESTERTON ACADEMY OF OUR LADY OF HOPE: $2,500 · EducationPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationSCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$710,066Human Services$77,540Food & Nutrition$58,000Animals$58,000Education$43,500Arts & Culture$30,000Philanthropy$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHREE SQUARE: $58,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetA PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE: $53,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetDESERT VIEW LEARNING CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Church School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PINECROFT SCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA BASSET HOUND RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetEarly Education Cooperative Preschool: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED PHOENIX FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetATTLEBORO YOUTH SOCCER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHESTERTON ACADEMY OF OUR LADY OF HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Picerne Family Ch…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Arizona Community Fou…Nevada Community Foun…NV Energy Charitable …Enterprise Holdings F…Arizona Tuition Conne…Raiders Foundation NvCanarelli Family Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …Three SquareMgm Resorts Foundation
The Picerne Family Charitable FoundationAZ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David R Picerne Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David R Picerne Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to David R Picerne Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David R Picerne Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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