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John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) at a glance

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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.

$692k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$442k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.7MEducation$1.8MHealth$581kArts & Culture$124kReligion$90kRecreation & Sports$89kHousing & Shelter$85kHuman Services$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $442k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–19, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GUADALUPE CENTER: $1k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $1k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $1k → 10%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC: $10k → 14%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC: $5k → 14%HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY: $8k → 14%HOMELESS AND TRAVELER'S AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $5k → 14%HOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $5k → 14%COLONIE SENIOR SERVICE CENTERS INC: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC: $8k → 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
NH
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation)’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation)lessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 65 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
46

Total granted

$4.8M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+44%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SU
    SIENA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $909k · revenue +35%
  • UA
    UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +169%
  • VC
    VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -61%
  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • LP
    LIFE PATH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Enterprise and Training Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 119 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
64/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Schwab Charitable Donor Advised Fund: $2,061,467 · OtherSchwab Charitable Donor Advised FundCHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY: $600,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMYALBANY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $400,600 · OtherALBANY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION+58 more: $495,990 · Other+58 moreSIENA UNIVERSITY: $909,000 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FO…VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $56,000 · Education+12 more: $106,500 · Education+12 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $501,968 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNIT…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT …+5 more: $41,500 · Philanthropy+5 moreSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · HealthUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $30,000 · HealthKOINONIA PRIMARY CARE INC: $17,500 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthWHITNEY M YOUNG JR HEALTH CENTER INC: $7,500 · HealthNewport Hospital Foundation: $6,000 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $5,000 · Health+4 more: $8,000 · HealthHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY: $12,500 · Arts & CultureALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureHOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesPARK PLAYHOUSE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOLONIE SENIOR SERVICES CENTERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesEQUINOX INC: $26,500 · Housing & ShelterUNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterST PAUL'S CENTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $3,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,558,057Education$1,196,500Philanthropy$608,468Health$116,000Arts & Culture$89,000Human Services$56,000Housing & Shelter$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $909,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $501,968 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $56,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL REGION YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $28,940 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEQUINOX INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $17,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS AND TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKOINONIA PRIMARY CARE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budget518 ELEVATED INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES OF EMMAUS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetST PAUL'S CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PLAYHOUSE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY M YOUNG JR HEALTH CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe RED Bookshelf Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PALACE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLONIE SENIOR SERVICES CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL DISTRICT WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 Community Foundat…Review FoundationThe Bender Family Fou…Price Chopper's Golub…Carl E Touhey Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…The Troy Savings Bank…United Way of the Gre…Mvp Health Plan IncMorse Hill Foundation…Kiwi FoundationCapital District Phys…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY70× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
29report 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.
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Find your warmest path to John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox 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 119 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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