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Pickett Family Foundation

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.

$500
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$179kEducation$122kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$3kYouth Development$3kCommunity Improvement$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100 → 16%FIRST: $5k → 12%SHENENDEHOWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%DOUBLE H RANCH: $4k → 10%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $110k → 11%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%FIRST: $5k → 12%FIRST TEAM 20: $3k → 7%DOUBLE H RANCH: $1k → 10%RPI: $13k → 11%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8k → 14%MISCELLANEOUS: $2k → 7%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%JDRF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $5k → 14%SARATOGA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $3k → 14%SARATOGA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%DRAKE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 7%THE ALBANY MEDICAL CENTERFOUNDATION: $100k → 14%SARATOGA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER: $4k → 14%SRATOGA SPONSAR A SCHOLAR: $1k → 7%NABA: $3k → 14%SARATOGA SENIOR CENTER: $250 → 7%SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR: $500 → 14%SARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $150 → 7%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%SARATOGA WARHORSE: $150 → 7%MAKE A WISH NORTHEAST NY: $7k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NENY: $5k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NENY: $5k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHHOSPITAL: $5k → 14%MAKE A WISH NORTHEAST NY: $5k → 14%MAKE A WISH NORTHEAST NY: $4k → 14%NORTHEAST KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%NORTHEAST KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%CAP COM CARES FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%15-LOVE: $500 → 14%CFGCR (THE COMMUNITYFOUNDATION): $1k → 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.
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 11 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$206k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+62%

Still filing today

45%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    2× · 2018–2019 · $115k · revenue +25%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +33%
  • DH
    DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ALBANY MEDICAL CENTERFOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • R
    RPI
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • SE
    SHENENDEHOWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -66%
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
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
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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12
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Albany Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Shenendehowa Educational Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 33 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)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ALBANY MEDICAL CENTERFOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE ALBANY MEDICAL CENTERFOUNDATIONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $17,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYMAKE A WISH NORTHEAST NY: $15,500 · OtherMAKE A WISH NORTHEAST NYRPI: $12,500 · OtherRPIFIRST: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NENY: $10,000 · OtherSARATOGA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Other+15 more: $28,200 · Other+15 moreRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $115,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSHENENDEHOWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $750 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,500 · HealthALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $3,750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $5,200 · Recreation & SportsSARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR: $1,500 · Arts & CultureDake Foundation for Children: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$200,700Education$120,750Health$28,250Recreation & Sports$5,200Arts & Culture$1,500Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHENENDEHOWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDake Foundation for Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SHENENDEHOWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dake Foundation for Children ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Pickett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pickett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–15%
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 33 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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