· Private foundation
The Pechter 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $344k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS | $58,128 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| OVERLOOK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE NJ | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $22,060 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WBGO | $11,203 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $10,250 |
| THE HEALING PATCH | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS8× · 2017–2025 · $409k · revenue +150%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $394k · revenue +23%- TJTHE JED FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +429%
Funded once
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCERone grant, 2024 · $100k
- EFEMERGENCY FUND FOR ISRAELone grant, 2023 · $100k
- JCJERSEY CITY PUBLIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Hekemian Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 153 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds BLAIR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Lipper Family Charitable Foundation · The Present Family Foundation Inc · George M and Pamela S Humphrey Fund · The Summit Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Pechter Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Shore Clubhouse Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.