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Peter Nager Charitable Trust

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Social Science$243kEducation$182kArts & Culture$121kHealth$20kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,057
Median grant
2
States reached
$654k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREASTCANCERORG$10,057
DUKE UNIVERSITY FENCING TEAM$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $1k → 7%BREASTCANCERORG: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $29k → 22%CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS: $70k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $60k → 20%DUKE UNIVERSITY FENCING TEAM: $1k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%BREASTCANCERORG: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 22%CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS: $51k → 9%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $41k → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%BEAVER DAM ASSOCIATION: $100 → 9%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $40k → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $12k → 9%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $39k → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $14k → 14%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $39k → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $25k → 20%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1k → 9%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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$431k · 4 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$431k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationSocial ScienceArts & CultureOther

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

  • SS
    SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $243k · revenue -35%
  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $121k · revenue -58%
  • HS
    HACKLEY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • RC
    RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +4%
  • BD
    BEAVER DAM ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100

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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

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

3
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
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
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
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

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
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $242,604 · Social ScienceSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCILCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $120,712 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Musi…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $92,311 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYHACKLEY SCHOOL — $47,355 · HealthHACKLEY SCHOO…BREASTCANCERORG — $19,968 · HealthBREASTCANCERO…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $39,212 · Education+3 more — $3,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY FENCING TEAM — $1,000 · OtherBEAVER DAM ASSOCIATION — $100 · Other
Social Science$242,604Arts & Culture$120,712Community Improvement$92,311Health$67,323Education$42,212Other$1,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $242,604 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $120,712 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $92,311 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL — $47,355 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $39,212 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG — $19,968 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · 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 Peter Nager Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Peter Nager Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Peter Nager Charitable Trust 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 11 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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