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Pulvermann Charitable Trust at a glance

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Pulvermann Charitable Trust

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.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$125k
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.

Arts & Culture$1.3MPublic Benefit$70kEducation$52k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE$125,000
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE$20,000
LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$20,000
MOUNT VERNON VIRTUOSI$15,000
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$2,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%LEO BAECK INSTITUTE: $400 → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $56k → 14%NEWPORT SYMPHONY: $5k → 16%UCONN FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%MOUNT VERNON VIRTUOSI: $15k → 11%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $125k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $55k → 14%UCONN FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%MOUNT VERNON VIRTUOSI: $5k → 11%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $125k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $55k → 14%UCONN FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%MOUNT VERNON VIRTUOSI: $3k → 11%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $125k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $55k → 14%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $125k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $50k → 14%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $25k → 14%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $25k → 14%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%PRESIDENT LINCOLNS COTTAGE: $20k → 14%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $5k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $5k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $5k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $5k → 17%KIDS CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $5k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $2k → 17%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$1.4M
$400

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+198%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • KC
    Kids Creative Collective Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $905k · revenue +29% · 100% of their budget
  • PL
    PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $341k · revenue +69%
  • RC
    RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • LB
    LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +198%
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 Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
4
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
7
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
8
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
9
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
10
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
11
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Presidential Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mount Vernon Virtuosi 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kids Creative Collective Inc: $904,500 · Youth DevelopmentKids Creative Collective IncPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME: $340,750 · Arts & CulturePRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT…Mount Vernon Virtuosi Inc: $23,000 · Arts & CultureMount Vernon Virtuosi IncFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationLINCOLN P…RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationRYE COUNT…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationTHE UNIVE…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC: $400 · Other
Youth Development$904,500Arts & Culture$385,750Education$117,000Other$5,400

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 budgetKids Creative Collective Inc: $904,500 over 8y, 100% of budgetPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME: $340,750 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMount Vernon Virtuosi Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC: $400 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 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 Pulvermann Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pulvermann Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 9 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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