New York · Private foundation
Peco 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 158
- Grants FY2024
- 164
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $148,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 160 to 176
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Peco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 158 | $1.7M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 164 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 169 | $1.8M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 166 | $1.6M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 165 | $1.6M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 167 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 176 | $1.3M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 160 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $394,500 | 8 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $365,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $218,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lower East Side Printshop Inc | $133,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Young Concert Artists Inc | $109,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Glimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc | $101,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Public Radio | $98,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Symphony Space Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 278 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peco Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 New York Community Trust · Samuel H Kress Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Peco Foundation
- How much does Peco Foundation give?
- Peco Foundation reported 158 grants totaling $1,704,107 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 160 and 176 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Peco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Education (11%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Peco Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($395k), City Harvest Inc ($365k), Amnesty International of the USA Inc ($218k).
- Does Peco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peco Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peco Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Samuel H Kress Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.
- Where is Peco Foundation based?
- Peco Foundation is based in NY.
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