Skip to content

New York · Private foundation

Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
186
Grants FY2024
178
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500,000
Organizations funded a year
150 to 178
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$258M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving175$35M9%
FY2023178$34M15%
FY2022175$33M19%
FY2021166$27M30%
FY2020150$27Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$32MEnvironment$19MEducation$17MPhilanthropy$14MHuman Services$12MCrime & Legal$12MHealth$10MCivil Rights$9.6MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 202 grantees
All grantees of Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$8,760,00051%
The Rockefeller University$8,500,00041%
Friends of the High Line Inc$5,925,000410%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$5,000,00051%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$5,000,00051%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$5,000,00054%
Earthjustice$4,600,00051%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$4,500,00050%
The United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc$2,500,00059%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$2,500,00056%
International Rescue Committee INC$2,450,00050%
Duke University$2,400,00040%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$2,250,00021%
Human Rights Watch Inc$2,000,00051%
Make the Road New York$1,950,00053%
Pro Publica Inc$1,950,00051%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$1,753,50055%
Food Bank for New York City$1,400,00050%
The Wilderness Society$1,400,00051%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$1,400,00051%
Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead$1,364,000510%
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences$1,325,00051%
Film at Lincoln Center Inc$1,254,40052%
Family Legal Care Inc$1,233,810512%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,200,00030%
New Yorkers for Children Inc$1,150,00049%
City Harvest Inc$1,150,00050%
American Museum of Natural History$1,100,00050%
Community Funds Inc$1,020,0002n/a
Jewish Family Service of San Diego$1,000,00041%
Safe Passage Project Corporation$950,00055%
St Ann's Warehouse Inc$925,00054%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$875,00051%
Friends of McGill University Inc$795,00045%
Workforce Professionals Training Institute$780,00059%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$750,00050%
International Medical Corps$750,00030%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$750,00030%
Reproductive Freedom for All$750,00043%
National Public Radio Inc$650,00050%
Rocking the Boat Inc$620,00053%
The Marshall Project Inc$575,00051%
Project Hospitality Inc$560,00021%
Whitney Museum of American Art$550,00050%
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc$550,00051%
New York Public Radio$550,00030%
Camba Inc$525,00030%
Film Forum Inc$525,00052%
Prep for Prep$515,00051%
The Dreamyard Project Inc$515,00043%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$500,00040%
United States Artists Inc$500,00019%
A Healthier Democracy Inc$450,00046%
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park Inc$450,00031%
Henry Street Settlement$450,00030%
Bronxworks Inc$425,00030%
Women in Need$425,000540%
The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc$420,00050%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$400,00040%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$400,00040%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$400,00041%
Equal Justice Initiative$400,00040%
Trace Media Inc$400,00053%
The Bronx Museum of the Arts$375,00053%
Repairers of the Breach Inc$375,000511%
Safe Horizon Inc$375,00050%
World Monuments Fund Inc$355,00041%
Public Art Fund Inc$350,00052%
Carl Schurz Park Conservancy Inc$350,00058%
The Innocence Project Inc$350,00040%
Museum of Modern Art$350,00050%
Harlem School of the Arts Inc$310,00051%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$310,00030%
Americares Foundation Inc$300,00020%
United Hospital Fund of New York$275,00022%
Footsteps Inc$275,00052%
Sco Family of Services$265,00020%
Red Hook Initiative$255,00051%
Wnet$250,00050%
St Luke's School$250,00050%
Green City Force Inc$250,00051%
Fwdus Education Fund Inc$250,00012%
Ocean Conservancy$250,00040%
Chicken & Egg Films Inc$250,00052%
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$250,00050%
New York Cares Inc$250,00051%
Governors Island Corporation$250,00020%
Per Scholas Inc$250,00040%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$250,00040%
City Living Ny Inc$250,000515%
Shed NYC Inc$235,00050%
Brooklyn Public Library$230,00030%
Witness Inc$220,00051%
Clooney Foundation for Justice$200,00022%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$200,00020%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$200,00020%
Path$200,00040%
Chess-In-The-Schools Inc$200,00052%
The Lower East Side Girls Club of New York Inc$155,00051%
The Bottom Line Inc$150,00020%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$150,00010%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$140,00010%
The Chapin School Ltd$135,00050%
Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation$133,00032%
The Campaign Against Hunger Inc$130,00011%
Poets House Inc$125,60052%
Maysles Institute Inc$125,00029%
Documented LTD$125,00022%
The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville & Bedford-Stuyvesant$125,00051%
Storycorps Inc$125,00050%
Visiting Nurse Service of New York$125,00050%
Yale University$120,0002n/a
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$110,00050%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$110,00050%
New York Focus Inc$100,00023%
The Brotherhood Sister Sol Inc$100,00021%
At the Table Inc$100,00046%
Laboratory for Icon and Idiom Inc$100,00059%
Save The Children Federation Inc$100,00010%
Ola of Eastern Long Island Inc$95,00052%
Humane Farm Animal Care$95,00051%
Williams College$85,00050%
Sadie Nash Leadership Project Inc$75,00031%
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience$75,00050%
Skylight Engagement Inc$75,000210%
Hias Inc$75,00010%
Hamptons Community Outreach Inc$60,00032%
Casita Maria Inc$60,00051%
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts$60,00051%
Good Shepherd Services$50,00050%
New York Botanical Garden$50,00050%
Global Action on Gun Violence Inc$50,00015%
National Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund$50,00011%
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$50,00050%
Syracuse University$50,00040%
Magnum Cultural Foundation$50,00051%
New York Women in Film & Television Inc$50,00021%
Ragdale Foundation$50,00051%
National Science Policy Network$50,000221%
Inseparable Inc$50,00011%
Residency Unlimited Inc$50,00052%
SoHarlem Inc$40,00041%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$40,00040%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$35,00040%
Hayground School Inc$35,00021%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$30,00020%
Asphalt Green Inc$30,00030%
Fostering Change for Children Ltd$30,00015%
The Arthur Project$25,00012%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$25,00030%
Project Sage Inc$25,00050%
Project Eats Inc$25,00012%
Studio in a School Association Inc$25,00010%
Center for Common Ground$25,00011%
Open Medicine Foundation$25,00011%
American Museum of the Moving Image$25,00010%
Groundswell Community Mural Projectinc$25,00011%
Inspiring Futures Inc$25,00018%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$20,00020%
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics Inc$20,00041%
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Inc$20,000150%
Community Food Advocates Inc$20,00022%
Litchfield Land Trust Inc$20,00041%
International Women's Media Foundation$20,00010%
Nonprofit New York Inc$15,00011%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$15,00010%
Yale University$15,0001n/a
Children's Museum of Manhattan$15,00030%
Expanded Schools Inc$15,00010%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$11,00050%
Padoquohan Medicine Lodge$10,0001n/a
New York University$10,00020%
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation$10,00030%
Southern Center for Human Rights$10,00020%
Susan B Anthony Project Inc$10,00020%
Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc$10,00010%
Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Us)$10,00010%
Soulardarity$10,00021%
The Brearley School$10,00010%
Fordham University$10,00010%
Holocaust Museum La$8,50050%
Misericordia Home$6,00040%
Edadvance$5,0001n/a
Pratt Institute$5,00010%
Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition Inc$5,00011%
American Friends of Natal Inc$5,00030%
Team Steady Buckets$5,00020%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$5,00010%
Fountain House Inc$5,00010%
The Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc$5,00020%
Girls Write Now Inc$5,00020%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$5,00010%
First Congregational Church of Old Lyme$5,0001n/a
Artisans Guild of America$5,00011%
Ministry of Hope$4,0001n/a
Police Athletic League Inc$2,50010%
Ms President US Inc$2,5001n/a
The Blue Card Inc$1,75030%
Montefiore Medical Center$1,00020%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$1,00010%
Hudson River Community Sailing Inc$75010%
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($40M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 194 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $8,760,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $8,500,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the High Line Inc: $5,925,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $5,000,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetEarthjustice: $4,600,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $4,500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc: $2,500,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $2,500,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $2,400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $2,250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $2,000,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMake the Road New York: $1,950,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $1,950,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,753,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead: $1,364,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $1,325,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFilm at Lincoln Center Inc: $1,254,400 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFamily Legal Care Inc: $1,233,810 over 5y, 12% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Yorkers for Children Inc: $1,150,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Diego: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSafe Passage Project Corporation: $950,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSt Ann's Warehouse Inc: $925,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetBrooklyn Academy of Music Inc: $875,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of McGill University Inc: $795,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetWorkforce Professionals Training Institute: $780,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $750,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Medical Corps: $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $750,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All: $750,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $650,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRocking the Boat Inc: $620,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetThe Marshall Project Inc: $575,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetProject Hospitality Inc: $560,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $550,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSeventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc: $550,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $550,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCamba Inc: $525,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFilm Forum Inc: $525,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPrep for Prep: $515,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 194.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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 Ford FoundationNY53.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Open Society Institute · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Altman Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Ag 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.

Compare Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies with peer funders

About Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies

How much does Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies give?
Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies reported 186 grants totaling $36,347,878 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 150 and 178 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Environment (12%), Education (11%).
Who are Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($8.8M), The Rockefeller University ($8.5M), Friends of the High Line Inc ($5.9M).
Does Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Pinkerton Foundation.
Where is Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies based?
Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies is based in NY.

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 286 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies’ filings →

More from the funding graph