· Private foundation
The Pesky Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
- $250k+1 grant · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER | $270,050 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART | $56,131 |
| THE ALLIANCE OF IDAHO | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL GAUCHER FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY | $6,000 |
| THE SENIOR CONNECTION | $5,500 |
| NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION | $5,201 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $5,200 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $5,138 |
| THE HUNGER COALITION | $5,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| SQUASH HAVEN | $4,730 |
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 (FY20–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
89 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $164k · revenue +47%
- AOALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +236%
- BSBoise State University Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +256%
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%
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.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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…
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…
How this is measured
119 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. 119 of the 191 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 LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 NATIONAL GAUCHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GRASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pesky Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pesky Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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