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Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc

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.

$342k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.6MArts & Culture$458kEnvironment$139kAnimals$124kHealth$106kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kPublic Benefit$7kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE$235,000
MORVEN$42,500
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION$25,000
NEW HOPE ARTS INC$12,000
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE$10,000
CAPITAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
RESTIGOUCHE ATLANTIC SALMON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$1,650
NEW HOPE CELEBRATES$500
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 (FY20–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $3k → 5%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $3k → 5%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $3k → 5%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $2k → 5%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $1k → 4%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $1k → 4%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

ME
VT
MN
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
TN
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 35 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
24

Total granted

$11M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsHuman 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

  • GC
    GEORGETOWN COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +15%
  • Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +312%
  • CH
    CAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SP
    SALMON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $37k
  • RS
    RUTGERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • JOHN F PETO STUDIO MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -26%
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
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
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
4
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
5
The Preservation Society of Newport County

The preservation society of newport county's mission is to protect, preserve, and present an exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes in one of the most historically intact cities in america. we hold in public trust the…

Arts & Culture
6
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
7
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
8
The Morris Museum Inc

Vision: the morris museum is the region's premier engine of curiosity and wonderment. mission: the morris museum enriches lives with exemplary exhibitions and performances of art, design, and science. see statement attached on schedule o.

Arts & Culture
9
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
10
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
11
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc

Winterthur builds upon the vision of Henry Francis du Pont to inspire and educate through its collections, estate, and academic programs by engaging diverse audiences in the study, preservation, and interpretation of American material…

Arts & Culture
12
The New Jersey Historical Society

The new jersey historical society collects, preserves, teaches, and interprets new jersey history through our archives, research library, and educational programs. we do so in the belief that an understanding and appreciation of historical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lake George Music Festival. 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

45 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. 45 of the 62 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $9,394,762 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE+3 more: $116,000 · EducationMORVEN: $356,500 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE: $88,125 · OtherNew Hope Arts Inc: $71,800 · OtherUNION COLLEGE: $44,000 · OtherSALMON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $36,650 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · Other+25 more: $126,650 · OtherTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $130,000 · Arts & CulturePrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE CANAL 21: $15,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $28,900 · Arts & CultureAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $115,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $6,500 · AnimalsRESTIGOUCHE ATLANTIC SALMON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $4,950 · AnimalsCAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Health+3 more: $1,475 · HealthNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE: $18,000 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentChewonki Foundation Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentNEW HOPE EAGLE FIRE CO: $18,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$9,510,762Other$748,725Arts & Culture$276,900Animals$126,450Health$91,475Environment$71,000Public Safety & Disaster$18,000

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 budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $9,394,762 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNew Hope Arts Inc: $71,800 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE EAGLE FIRE CO: $18,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE: $18,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPitzer College: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE CANAL 21: $15,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $10,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN F PETO STUDIO MUSEUM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetISLES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESTIGOUCHE ATLANTIC SALMON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $4,950 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWHYY INC: $4,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER FRIENDS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE METROPOLITAN CLUB INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST: $1,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD ISLAND RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHopewell Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE CELEBRATES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLomi School Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 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 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds New Hope Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE EAGLE FIRE CO ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE CANAL 21 ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F PETO STUDIO MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ISLES INC ↗
  • Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds RESTIGOUCHE ATLANTIC SALMON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…George H and Estelle …Curtis W McGraw Found…The Robert Wood Johns…The Griffin-Cole FundThe Pearl Family Foun…Margaret and Marshall…The J Robert & Barbar…Educational Ventures …Mills Foundation IncThe Frank J Ryan and …
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ30.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Griffin-Cole Fund · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · Margaret and Marshall Bartlett Family Foundation Inc C/O John Bartlet · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · Educational Ventures Inc · Mills Foundation Inc · The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family 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 Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance: 35% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Arts Council of Princeton: 6% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
15report 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.

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 62 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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