· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE NJ | $25,000 |
| SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 153 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 WNET ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pechter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pechter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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