· Private foundation
Margen R Penick Charitable Trust Uw
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON EINSTEIN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| MORVEN MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS | $2,500 |
| WATERSHED INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| RED HILL PATRICK HENY NATL MEMORIAL | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| GREAT LAKES BASIN CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWellesley College4× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +63%
PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +32%- CACENTER AT 353 INC2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- RHROCKY HILL FIRST AIDone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PPPRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
To expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of science, reveal how the scientific past is embedded in our daily lives, and catalyze the reimagining of our scientific and technological future
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PRINCETON EINSTEIN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BASIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER AT 353 INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK 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.
Open a dossier: The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Margen R Penick Charitable Trust Uw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margen R Penick Charitable Trust Uw. Bigger dots raise more.
- Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
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