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The Pestcoe Family 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.

$758k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$866kPublic Safety & Disaster$403kFood & Nutrition$325kInternational$287kCivil Rights$177kHousing & Shelter$112kHuman Services$111kArts & Culture$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC$400,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK$100,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$75,000
CITY HARVEST INC$50,000
WNET$25,000
SCHOOL THE WORLD$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
ST JOHNS BREAD & LIFE PROGRAM INC$20,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC$20,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$10,000
TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$3,900
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$1,000
MADISON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC$1,000
PAROTTEE ENRICHMENT PROJECT INC$500
URSULINE SCHOOL OF NEW ROCHELLE$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRATEFUL AMERICANS CHARITY: $500 → 9%SHELTER BOX USA: $10k → 10%PAROTTEE ENRICHMENT PROJECT INC: $500 → 13%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $500 → 16%BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $2k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $1k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $1k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $1k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $1k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $1k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $500 → 12%BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $1k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 39 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
16

Total granted

$1.9M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+37%

Still filing today

87%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $650k · revenue +44%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +75%
  • ST
    SCHOOL THE WORLD INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $211k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -89%
  • SU
    SHELTERBOX USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • NY
    New York City Parents In Action Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Manhattanville University

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

Education
2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
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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6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
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Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
9
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
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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
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Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
12
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and the most unlike its peers is Parottee Enrichment Project 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%64%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,508

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
43/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $650,250 · EducationST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INCWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $95,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYDONORSCHOOSEORG — $47,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $44,400 · Education+2 more — $8,000 · EducationCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $400,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $100,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK — $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOC…+32 more — $138,670 · Other+32 moreCITY HARVEST INC — $215,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST I…St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc — $86,000 · Food & NutritionSt Johns Bread…GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $23,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE …SCHOOL THE WORLD INC — $211,000 · PhilanthropySCHOOL THE…+3 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $35,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUS…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $31,000 · Arts & CultureWNET — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $4,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $2,050 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,500 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC — $10,000 · InternationalKIWIMBI INTERNATIONALA NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION — $2,500 · International+1 more — $122 · International
Education$844,650Other$738,670Food & Nutrition$324,000Philanthropy$217,000Civil Rights$210,000Arts & Culture$67,300International$52,122

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $650,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $215,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL THE WORLD INC — $211,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc — $86,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $44,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT — $8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON — $5,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Parents In Action Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC — $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING RESULTS — $3,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAREERS SUPPORT SOLUTIONS INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC DBA MADISON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIWIMBI INTERNATIONALA NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION — $2,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATER FOR THE NEW CITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY GARDEN — $1,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAROTTEE ENRICHMENT PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Hyde and Watson F…The Oregon Community …The Jackson FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…Careoregon IncJuan Young TrustChubb Charitable Foun…Meyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Juan Young Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Pestcoe Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • The Arc of Essex County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% of income from government
  • St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Pestcoe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pestcoe Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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