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The Peggy and Millard Drexler Family Foundation at a glance

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The Peggy and Millard Drexler Family 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.

$535k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.7MArts & Culture$979kEducation$823kEnvironment$411kPhilanthropy$402kAnimals$282kReligion$116kRecreation & Sports$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$125,000
SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$100,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$50,000
NEWYORKPRESBYTERIANFUNDINC$50,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$50,000
ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$30,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$25,000
CHINATI FOUNDATION$11,000
THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION DBA THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT$10,000
THE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION$10,000
MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA$10,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$10,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$7,500
ARTSCONNECTION$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Bald Mountain Rescue Fund: $1k → 7%Lustgarten Foundation: $250 → 6%Zero to Three: $3k → 14%Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation: $25k → 7%Harlem Children's Zone: $10k → 17%Mount Sinai Health System: $10k → 17%Mount Sinai Health System: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
AZ
DC
MS
AL
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 37 repeat orgs$798k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
73

Total granted

$3.8M
$687k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+28%

Still filing today

65%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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 & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $775k · revenue +82%
  • PL
    PECONIC LAND TRUST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +474%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TC
    THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +112%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -9%
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
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
2
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
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

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10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Exceptional Education Outreach 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

78 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. 78 of the 122 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
56/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,110,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION…THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUN…+6 more: $120,750 · Health+6 moreSYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $125,000 · OtherSYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CA…CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $90,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUELincoln Center Theatre: $70,000 · OtherLincoln Center TheatreIcahn School of Medicine at Mt Sina: $55,000 · OtherPark Avenue Armory: $52,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherNEWYORKPRESBYTERIANFUNDINC: $50,000 · OtherThe City College 21st Century Found: $50,000 · OtherBronx Science Alumni Foundation: $50,000 · OtherThe Bronx High School: $50,000 · Other+63 more: $536,850 · Other+63 moreWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $775,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES I…+15 more: $103,860 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $570,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $65,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CA…STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+7 more: $22,000 · EducationPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $330,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $14,500 · Environment+2 more: $11,500 · EnvironmentUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $318,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $31,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $252,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,100 · Animals+1 more: $2,500 · Animals
Health$1,325,750Other$1,229,350Arts & Culture$878,860Education$732,500Environment$376,000Philanthropy$349,000Animals$281,100

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $570,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $330,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $318,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $252,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADF FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $14,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN HEIGHTS MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds NEXT FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗

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 FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ford FoundationCalifornia Community …Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Peggy and Millard Drexler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peggy and Millard Drexler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • The West End Museum Incorporated: 65% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 122 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home