New Jersey · 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.
- $596k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $58,128
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Pechter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 60 | $595k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $982k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $485k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $759k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $632k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $668k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $726k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $749k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Museum of Mathematics | $409,186 | 8 | 3% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $393,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Jed Foundation | $310,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Temple Sinai | $154,422 | 9 | n/a |
| Paper Mill Playhouse | $113,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $98,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Newark Public Radio Inc | $60,111 | 9 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pechter Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Pechter Foundation
- How much does The Pechter Foundation give?
- The Pechter Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $596,241 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Pechter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (21%), Religion (18%).
- Who are The Pechter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Museum of Mathematics ($409k), Trustees of Phillips Academy ($394k), The Jed Foundation ($310k).
- Does The Pechter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pechter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Pechter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Investors Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Pechter Foundation based?
- The Pechter Foundation is based in NJ.
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