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Jeffrey S Pechter Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jeffrey S Pechter Family Foundation Inc

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.

$330k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$743kArts & Culture$495kHealth$388kEducation$103kPhilanthropy$68kEmployment$60kReligion$55kInternational$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$942k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZENO MOUNTAIN FARM$125,000
ASPEN FILM$125,000
LIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION THE CHARLIE FUND PROJECT$50,000
FILM INDEPENDENT$20,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WAVES FOR WATER INC: $3k → 14%WAVES FOR WATER: $10k → 14%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

VT
MN
NY
IN
CA
CO
MD
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 13 repeat orgs$440k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$1.5M
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+1%

Still filing today

62%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PB
    Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +251%
  • HI
    HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +234%
  • SD
    Sweet Dream Makers Inc
    3× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +466%

Funded once

  • UC
    UCLA COVID19 PATIENT CARE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +14%
  • AJ
    ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
San Francisco Green Film Festival

San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.

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2
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
3
Women in Film

Promotion of equal rights for women in the entertainment industry. to serve as a repository for information on qualified women in the entertainment industry.

Arts & Culture
4
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
5
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
6
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Devoted to a greater appreciation of indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, supporting emerging filmmakers, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the indian diaspora.

Arts & Culture
7
Newfilmmakers Los Angeles

Works by emerging filmmkaers from around the world, providing the losangeles community of entertainment professionals and film goers with aconstant surge of monthly screening events. nfmla provides a forumwhere filmmakers can be recognized…

Arts & Culture
8
Womens Voices Now Inc

Use film to drive postive social change that advances girls and women's rights globally.

International
9
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
10
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
11
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
12
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women Make Movies Inc; the most unlike its peers is Education for Employment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZENO MOUNTAIN FARM: $290,000 · OtherZENO MOUNTAIN FARMBOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $265,000 · OtherBOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONASPEN FILM: $250,000 · OtherASPEN FILMUCLA COVID19 PATIENT CARE FUND: $100,000 · OtherUCLA COVID19 PATIENT CARE FUNDASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY: $50,000 · Other+15 more: $118,000 · Other+15 moreLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Food & NutritionLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUND…Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $27,500 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MO…FILM INDEPENDENT: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPEND…AMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION: $49,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FILM…Sundance Institute: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Inst…ASPEN FILM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN FILMASPEN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION: $87,500 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $60,000 · InternationalSUMBA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · InternationalLOVE BUTTON GLOBAL MOVEMENT: $30,000 · HealthWAVES FOR WATER INC: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$1,073,000Food & Nutrition$477,500Arts & Culture$245,000Education$102,500International$62,500Health$30,000Human Services$12,500

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 budgetLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION: $49,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSundance Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE BUTTON GLOBAL MOVEMENT: $30,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN FILM: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAVES FOR WATER INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMBA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds LIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ↗
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds LOVE BUTTON GLOBAL MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
  • Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAVES FOR WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMBA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION ↗

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.

California Community …National Philanthropi…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
California Community FoundationCA17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good

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 Jeffrey S Pechter Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffrey S Pechter Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Jeffrey S Pechter Family 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.

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 36 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.

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