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The Pequot Charitable 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.

$74k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$20k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Pequot Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$74k14%
FY202311$77k18%
FY202214$130k29%
FY202116$151k50%
FY202011$116kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$348kHealth$123kReligion$35kArts & Culture$11kYouth Development$10kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marquette University$75,00350%
Children's Hospital Corporation$50,00020%
Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy Inc$40,0002n/a
St Johns Preparatory School Inc$30,0004n/a
Boston College High School$24,0004n/a
Adopt a Student Foundation$17,50030%
Notre Dame Academy$15,6002n/a
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn$7,50010%
Glen Urquhart School$5,00010%
Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of The Pequot Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marquette University$75,00350%
Children's Hospital Corporation$50,00020%
Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy Inc$40,0002n/a
St Johns Preparatory School Inc$30,0004n/a
Boston College High School$24,0004n/a
Adopt a Student Foundation$17,50030%
Notre Dame Academy$15,6002n/a
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn$7,50010%
Glen Urquhart School$5,00010%
Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc$5,00010%
Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish$5,0001n/a
Veterans Legal Services Inc$3,50020%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc$2,50010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($268k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pequot Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $75,003 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt a Student Foundation: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlen Urquhart School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Wonderfund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Legal Services Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to The Pequot Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pequot Charitable 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.

About The Pequot Charitable Foundation

How much does The Pequot Charitable Foundation give?
The Pequot Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $73,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Pequot Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), Health (22%), Religion (6%).
Who are The Pequot Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Marquette University ($75k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($50k), Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy Inc ($40k).
Does The Pequot Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pequot Charitable 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 Pequot Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, The Klarman Family Foundation.
Where is The Pequot Charitable Foundation based?
The Pequot Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 27 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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