· Private foundation
John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation)
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $442k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Schwab Charitable Donor Advised Fund | $441,700 |
| Christian Brothers Academy | $100,000 |
| Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region | $100,000 |
| Vermont Community Foundation | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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 6% of John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox 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.
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.
65 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SUSIENA UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $909k · revenue +35%
- UAUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +169%
- VCVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -61%
- LPLIFE PATHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- UTUNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +326%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Enterprise and Training Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patriot Flight Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 119 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 SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINOX INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds KOINONIA PRIMARY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds 518 ELEVATED INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Review Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Carl E Touhey Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Morse Hill Foundation Inc · Kiwi Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc
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 John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Landmark College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% 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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