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Pse Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2019
3
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2019.

Education$94kHealth$13kArts & Culture$11kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$1kHuman Services$500
02FY2019 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$3,563
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$29,793
NORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION$3,563
SAN FRANSCISCO SYMPHONY$3,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ALPINE LITTLE LEAGUE: $1k → 7%LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5k → 8%TEACHFORAMERICA BAY AREA: $2k → 10%NORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%CHILD MIND INSTITUE: $1k → 17%DANCERS REPERTORY THEATRE: $2k → 7%WENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 8%SAN FRANSCISCO SYMPHONY: $4k → 10%NORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%NYRR TEAM FOR KIDS: $3k → 17%DANCERS REPERTORY THEATRE: $2k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY-UNDER ONE UMBRELLA: $5k → 8%THE DISTRIKT: $4k → 10%NORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%BRCA FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $24k → 7%WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 3 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$102k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-3%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • WS
    WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $89k · revenue +11%
  • NT
    NORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +157%
  • DR
    DANCERS REPERTORY THEATRE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k

Funded once

  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY-UNDER ONE UMBRELLA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • D
    DISTRIKT
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -87%
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
3
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Weissberg Foundation
—
5
The Kranzberg Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
The Diane Stilwell Weinberg Foundation
Human Services
7
The Weil Foundation
Health
8
Dirk Nowitzki Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Sara Schottenstein Foundation
—
10
Weiss Family Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Dance Film Sf Inc

Dance Film SF DFSF brings dance to wider audiences through the presentation and development of dance-based films. We celebrate the best dance films from around the world, encourage and assist choreographers and filmmakers in the creation…

Arts & Culture
12
Sara Rechnitzer Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is Wender Weis Foundation for Children. 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 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. 9 of the 13 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)
7/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $89,005 · EducationWOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION+1 more: $2,000 · EducationLUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,125 · OtherLUCILE PACKARD CH…STANFORD UNIVERSITY-UNDER ONE UMBRELLA: $5,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSI…DANCERS REPERTORY THEATRE: $3,300 · OtherDANCERS REPERTORY…NYRR TEAM FOR KIDS: $2,620 · OtherNYRR TEAM FOR KID…BRCA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherBRCA FOUNDATIONALPINE LITTLE LEAGUE: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherNORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION: $9,863 · Recreation & SportsDISTRIKT: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · Health
Education$91,005Other$19,545Recreation & Sports$9,863Arts & Culture$7,500Health$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 budgetWOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $89,005 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION: $9,863 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDISTRIKT: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCERS REPERTORY THEATRE: $3,300 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRCA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Pse Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pse Foundation Inc. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Pse Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pse 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 13 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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