· Private foundation
The Pesky Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $250k+1 grant · $327k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER | $326,790 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $35,500 |
| THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $26,010 |
| THE ALLIANCE OF IDAHO | $13,572 |
| NATIONAL GAUCHER FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART | $9,440 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $7,648 |
| THE SENIOR CONNECTION | $6,500 |
| SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE | $6,200 |
| SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY | $6,000 |
| SQUASH HAVEN | $5,219 |
| ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST | $5,083 |
| VERA INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $3,665 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $3,100 |
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 (FY20–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $161k · revenue +47%
- BSBoise State University Foundation Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +256%
- AOALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +236%
Funded once
- THTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $78k · revenue +24%
- GGGLOBAL GRASSROOTSone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -97%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
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…
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heartworks Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
112 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. 112 of the 180 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 LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SQUASH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GRASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GAUCHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HAKU BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗
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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · The Nalen Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Christensen Family Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Maneval Reister Conard Family Foundation · The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc · Martin Djos Family 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 Pesky Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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.
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