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Pickman 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.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$320kEducation$235kScience & Tech$150kCivil Rights$125kYouth Development$25kCrime & Legal$20kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$125,000
NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST$100,000
QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
QUEENS MUSEUM$25,000
PUBLICOLOR INC$25,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$5,000
KINGSTON COLLEGE OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE INN: $5k → 6%QUEENS DEFENDERS: $10k → 13%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $175k → 17%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS: $1k → 13%QUEENS DEFENDERS: $10k → 13%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $175k → 17%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $125k → 17%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%QUEENS MUSEUM: $25k → 13%THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $125k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $30k → 11%QUEENS MUSEUM: $25k → 13%THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $125k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $30k → 11%QUEENS MUSEUM: $25k → 13%THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $125k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $30k → 11%QUEENS MUSEUM: $15k → 13%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $75k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $30k → 11%QUEENS MUSEUM: $10k → 13%PUBLICOLOR INC: $25k → 17%QUEENS MUSEUM: $10k → 13%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100k → 17%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5k → 17%QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $100k → 17%QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $50k → 17%QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $50k → 17%QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $50k → 17%GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20k → 13%QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%JAMAICA SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER ADULTS: $5k → 13%JAMAICA SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER ADULTS: $5k → 13%JAMAICA SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER ADULTS: $5k → 13%KING MANOR MUSEUM: $3k → 13%KING MANOR MUSEUM: $2k → 13%SUNNYSIDE SHINES: $3k → 13%SUNNYSIDE SHINES: $3k → 13%SUNNYSIDE SHINES: $3k → 13%SUNNYSIDE SHINES: $3k → 13%SUNNYSIDE SHINES: $3k → 13%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 14 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$1.6M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+10%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsInternationalHealthEducationOther
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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
    7× · 2017–2025 · $925k · revenue +9%
  • TQ
    THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +179%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • GJ
    GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
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
7
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
New York Quadricentennial Committee

New york quadricentennial committee's mission is to celebrate the 400th anniversaries of the founding of today's new york city and educate the public about historical events that occurred in the new york city area.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
11
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Queens Library Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $925,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUS…QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $110,000 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART+2 more: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMU…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $120,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · OtherTHE QUEENS LIBRAR…Kingston College Old Boys Association USA Inc: $40,000 · OtherKingston College …JAMAICA SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER ADULTS INC: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherQUEENS LAW ASSOCIATES NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherQUEENS LAW ASSOCI…Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $8,000 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $150,000 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $125,000 · Civil RightsGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPUBLICOLOR INC: $25,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,044,000Philanthropy$320,000Other$305,500International$150,000Civil Rights$125,000Community Improvement$30,000Education$25,000

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 budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $925,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKingston College Old Boys Association USA Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS LAW ASSOCIATES NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAMAICA SERVICE PROGRAM FOR OLDER ADULTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKing Manor Assoc of Long Island Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pickman Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pickman Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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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