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James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$23,954
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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
FY202313$2.3M46%
FY20225$54k60%
FY202013$255k23%
FY20199$95k11%
FY201811$135k0%
FY201714$204kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$2.3MYouth Development$229kArts & Culture$192kHuman Services$95kCommunity Improvement$95kFood & Nutrition$33kScience & Tech$30kHealth$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $1,045,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMv Youth Inc: $123,954 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Queens Library Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPublicolor Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $81,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCity Teaching Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Yard Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAquinnah Cultural Center Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetSheltering Arms Children and Family Services Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Grown Initiative Ltd: $33,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Museum Inc: $23,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLatin American Youth Center: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKipp DC Public Charter Schools: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Energy Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAquinnah Community Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 22.

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.

South Mountain Company FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Tides Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc 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.

About James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc

How much does James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc give?
James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $2,259,787 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (75%), Youth Development (8%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Trustees of the Smith College ($1.0M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($1.0M), Mv Youth Inc ($124k).
Does James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc 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 James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Mountain Company Foundation, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore.
Where is James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc based?
James and Elizabeth Pickman Foundation Inc 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 27 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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