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Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation at a glance

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Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$646kEducation$389kArts & Culture$197kRecreation & Sports$150kReligion$115kHealth$106kPublic Benefit$45kFood & Nutrition$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Berkshire School$50,000
Fidelity Charitable$41,500
Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc.$30,000
Community Foundation for Palm Beach & Martin Counties Inc.$25,000
Philadelphia Foundation$25,000
Rosarian Academy Charitable Trust$25,000
Town of Palm Beach United Way$25,000
Hospital for Special Surgery$10,000
St. Juliana Catholic Church$10,000
Boston Foundation Inc.$10,000
Dorset Theatre Festival$10,000
Palm Beach Civic Association Inc.$10,000
Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc.$10,000
Town of Palm Beach United Way$10,000
Town of Palm Beach Mayor's Employee's Fund$5,000
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 (FY18–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%Casa Myrna: $5k → 16%EXPANDEDSCHOOLS: $3k → 17%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
MA
PA
CA
NE
DE
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$733k · 20 repeat orgs$670k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
50

Total granted

$733k
$622k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+45%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TB
    THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $163k · revenue +52%
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +72%
  • DT
    DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties
    one grant, 2022 · $145k
  • FO
    Friends of Recreation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +407%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RECREATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
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
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
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
6
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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7
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world

Philanthropy
8
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
9
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

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12
Fresh Air Fund

To provide nyc children from low-income families with cultural, recreational, and educational experiences at its camps and with volunteer host families and through year-round academic programs.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 82 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties: $145,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation for Palm Beach and M…St. Juliana Catholic Church: $70,000 · OtherSt. Juliana Catholic ChurchROSARIAN ACADEMY: $70,000 · OtherROSARIAN ACADEMYFRIENDS OF RECREATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RECREATION FOUNDATIONCollege of St Rose: $30,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of the Capital Region: $25,000 · OtherROSARIAN ACADEMY CHARITABLE TRUST: $25,000 · Other+39 more: $234,500 · Other+39 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $105,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEA…Friends of Recreation Inc: $90,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Recreation IncTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way IncBoston Foundation Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $23,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $163,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE S…THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $60,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF …VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVE…SOPHIA ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KR…DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureDORSET THEAT…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENT…The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $41,500 · Community ImprovementPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION: $12,720 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 · HealthHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $10,000 · HealthMANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NORTHSHIRE RESCUE SQUAD: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $5,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT: $2,000 · HealthPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $11,000 · AnimalsThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsHOME AT LAST DOG RESCUE INC: $4,500 · AnimalsMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$659,500Philanthropy$528,000Education$253,000Arts & Culture$197,000Community Improvement$71,500Health$59,720Animals$31,500

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 budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $163,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $38,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROSARIAN ACADEMY CHARITABLE TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION: $12,720 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENSSELAER LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSUITS FOR SENIORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NORTHSHIRE RESCUE SQUAD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryn Athyn Fire Company: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME AT LAST DOG RESCUE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morse Hill Foundation…The Mary Alice Fortin…Community Foundation …The Cigna Group Found…Alice Busch Gronewald…The Thomas C Quick Ch…Wsb Family FoundationThe McCarthy Charitie…Review FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The William Penn Foun…
Morse Hill Foundation IncNY41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morse Hill Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · The Thomas C Quick Charitable Trust U/A December 29 1986 · Wsb Family Foundation · The McCarthy Charities Inc · Review Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The William Penn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report 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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How do I get to Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Michael and Margaret Picotte 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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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