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The David and Karen Pecker Foundation at a glance

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The David and Karen Pecker Foundation

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.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
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 2024.

Education$803kHealth$178kYouth Development$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kReligion$11kHuman Services$1kEnvironment$1kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN$110,000
SOLDIERS TO SIDELINES$60,000
ST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION LTD$25,000
ROGOSIN INSTITUTE$25,000
ACE THE STIGMA$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOLDIERS TO SIDELINES: $60k → 10%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

MN
NY
CT
VA
DE
TN
AL
FL
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.
$846k · 4 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$846k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+90%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • PU
    PACE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $800k · revenue +24%
  • TR
    The Rogosin Institute Inc
    2× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +24%
  • FD
    Federal Drug Agents Foundation Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SVC OF GREENWICH
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • SA
    STUDENT ADVOCACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +52%
  • EF
    ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +109%
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
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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2
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…

Health
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
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
8
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
9
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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10
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
11
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Elizabeth Seton Children's Foundation Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Ace the Stigma. 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

17 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. 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACE UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $2,500 · EducationWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $110,000 · HealthWEILL CORNELL IM…The Rogosin Institute Inc: $29,000 · HealthThe Rogosin Inst…ACE THE STIGMA: $10,000 · HealthACE THE STIGMA+4 more: $3,200 · HealthSoldiers to Sidelines: $60,000 · Human ServicesST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SVC OF GREENWICH: $11,000 · Other+7 more: $4,100 · OtherFederal Drug Agents Foundation Inc: $16,500 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF OLETA RIVER STATE PARK: $1,000 · EnvironmentALGEMEINER INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Education$802,500Health$152,200Human Services$60,000Other$40,100Public Safety & Disaster$16,500Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$500

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 budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoldiers to Sidelines: $60,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $29,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ELIZABETH SETON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFederal Drug Agents Foundation Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetACE THE STIGMA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIANO RIVERA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Eye Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The David and Karen Pecker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Karen Pecker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Jewish Family Services of Greenwich: 18% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The David and Karen Pecker Foundation 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 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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