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Pickard-Studley Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pickard-Studley Foundation Inc

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.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$146kArts & Culture$67kYouth Development$18kHealth$7kInternational$6kScience & Tech$5kEnvironment$250
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Pittsburgh$24,500
University of Chicago$12,500
Pennsylvania State University$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,400
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst$5,000
M V Youth$2,500
Tufts University$1,000
Human Rights Watch$500
Stanford University$500
Harvard University$450
Ocean Conservancy$250
Individual grant recipient$50
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%M V Youth: $3k → 8%University of Pittsburgh: $30k → 11%Pennsylvania State University: $10k → 16%Stanford University: $500 → 8%Fellowships at Aschwitz: $50 → 17%Arena Stage: $2k → 14%University of Chicago GSB: $15k → 14%Signature Theatre: $15k → 7%Round House Theatre: $250 → 8%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $3k → 19%Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst: $5k → 8%University of Pittsburgh: $25k → 11%Penn State University: $10k → 16%Kennedy Center: $3k → 14%University of Chicago GSB: $15k → 14%Signature Theatre: $15k → 7%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $3k → 19%Penn State University: $10k → 16%Kennedy Center: $2k → 14%University of Chicago GSB: $6k → 14%Signature Theatre: $14k → 7%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $2k → 19%Penn State University: $5k → 16%Kennedy Center: $2k → 14%University of Chicago: $13k → 14%Signature Theatre: $10k → 7%Penn State University: $5k → 16%Resources to Inspire Students & Educators: $10k → 14%Georgetown University: $2k → 14%Resources to Inspire Students & Educators: $5k → 14%UNHCR for USA: $5k → 14%Smithsonian Institution: $2k → 14%Ocean Conservancy: $250 → 14%Smithsonian Institution: $2k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 8 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$207k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+35%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentScience & TechInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +40%
  • ST
    SIGNATURE THEATRE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +61%
  • RT
    RESOURCES TO INSPIRE STUDENTS & EDUCATORS-DC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +35%
  • WD
    WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +31%
  • RH
    ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +75%
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 George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
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
3
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
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

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
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
7
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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8
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
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Mv Youth 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago GSB: $36,000 · OtherUniversity of Chicago GSBPenn State University: $30,000 · OtherPenn State UniversityPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYKennedy Center: $7,000 · OtherKennedy CenterJohns Hopkins Medicine: $6,500 · OtherJohns Hopkins MedicineIndividual grant recipient: $5,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $50 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $54,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUniversity of Chicago: $12,500 · EducationUniversity of Chicago+4 more: $3,450 · EducationSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $53,700 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $4,700 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION+2 more: $1,750 · Arts & CultureRESOURCES TO INSPIRE STUDENTS & EDUCATORS-DC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMV YOUTH INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Science & TechHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500 · InternationalOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $250 · Environment
Other$94,950Education$70,450Arts & Culture$60,150Youth Development$17,500Science & Tech$5,000International$500Environment$250

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $54,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $53,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCES TO INSPIRE STUDENTS & EDUCATORS-DC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $4,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $250 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Pickard-Studley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pickard-Studley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 22 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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