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Pearson Family Charitable 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.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$223kEnvironment$125kHousing & Shelter$34kRecreation & Sports$25kHealth$24kHuman Services$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kSocial Science$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RIVERS SCHOOL$50,000
NOBLE & GREENOUGH SCHOOL$10,000
METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND$10,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$7,500
THE FENN SCHOOL$7,500
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$5,000
RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY$3,500
HEADING HOME$3,500
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$3,500
AMERICAN FUND FOR LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS$3,500
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$2,500
LEXINGTON REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LEXRAP)$2,500
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$2,500
LEXINGTON FOOD PANTRY$2,500
SUNANTHA CAMILA FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LEXINGTON REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LEXRAP): $3k → 8%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $10k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $4k → 10%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $10k → 8%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $5k → 8%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NY
MA
RI
VA
NM
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$102k · 7 repeat orgs$287k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$102k
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+15%

Still filing today

86%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HU
    HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +17%
  • MW
    METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +727%
  • CC
    Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades
    2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +167%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
7
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
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
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellesley College and the most unlike its peers is The Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%56%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%84%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $100,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDATHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $50,000 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYAMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATIONTHE FENN SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherWESTON POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $17,000 · Other+5 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $95,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $21,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSI…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIV…VERMONT ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationVERMONT ACADEMYNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationNOBLE AND GREENO…Trustees of Tufts College — $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Tuft…Wellesley College — $5,000 · EducationWellesley Colleg…The George Washington University — $3,500 · EducationSunantha Camila Foundation Inc — $2,500 · EducationMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesLEXRAP CORP — $2,500 · Human ServicesCollier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades — $17,500 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club — $5,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $2,500 · EnvironmentHEADING HOME — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INC — $3,500 · Housing & ShelterAGAWAM COUNCIL — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican Bird Conservancy — $2,500 · Animals
Other$237,000Community Improvement$95,000Education$69,500Human Services$36,000Environment$25,000Housing & Shelter$13,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Animals$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC — $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCollier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades — $17,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC — $13,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAWAM COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA12.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Pearson Family Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pearson Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pearson Family Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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