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Petchers Foundation Inc at a glance

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Petchers Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$162k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$244kHealth$115kCivil Rights$64kInternational$57kEducation$52kFood & Nutrition$43kPublic Benefit$22kReligion$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
RAIN FOREST FOUNDATION US$20,000
RAIN FOREST TRUST$15,000
UNICEF$8,000
ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUE$8,000
ACLU$8,000
HADASSAH$8,000
HEALTH IN HARMONY$7,700
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$6,000
PROPUBLICA$5,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$4,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$4,000
FOOD BANK FOR NYC$4,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
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 (FY19–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 9%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR: $1k → 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
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC
OK
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$592k · 37 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
10

Total granted

$592k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
InternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • RF
    RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +5%
  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +54%
  • HI
    Health in Harmony
    5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +270%

Funded once

  • WT
    WHERE THE LOVE IS ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • PL
    PRESERVE LARCHMONT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • 4L
    4 LITTLE PAWS ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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3
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
7
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Preserve Larchmont Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 59 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $91,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $15,500 · OtherHADASSAH: $14,000 · OtherACLU: $13,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $11,750 · OtherNATIONAL DEFENSE COUNCIL: $11,600 · OtherREPORTERS COMM FOR FREEDOM OF PRESS: $10,600 · OtherFeeding America: $17,000 · OtherFeeding AmericaPRO PUBLICA INC: $11,750 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 · Other+26 more: $66,635 · Other+26 moreRAINFOREST TRUST: $73,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $4,500 · InternationalTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 · International+2 more: $4,700 · InternationalRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOU…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $8,600 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION I…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $300 · EnvironmentHealth in Harmony: $52,700 · HealthHealth in…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $700 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $32,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 · Civil RightsSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $27,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $16,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · Community Improvement
Other$299,835International$112,950Environment$89,900Health$57,900Civil Rights$51,000Education$41,500Community Improvement$27,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $78,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $73,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $52,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $11,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $8,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL HAVEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL I: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $204 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $181 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.

  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Petchers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Petchers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 59 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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