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The Picard 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.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
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 FY2018–2025.

Philanthropy$3.1MEducation$783kArts & Culture$519kScience & Tech$223kHealth$59kHuman Services$48kInternational$26kYouth Development$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$40,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$35,000
WATTS FOUNDATION$22,500
NORTHWEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL STUDIES$5,000
THE HEALING CENTER$5,000
VILLA ACADEMY$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
CT
CA
MO
MD
DE
NM
TX

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$1.5M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-3%

Still filing today

76%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthInternationalScience & TechOther

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

  • VA
    VILLA ACADEMY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $248k · revenue +46%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $115k · revenue +61%
  • RF
    ROCKHOUSE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $80k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • DR
    Dead Relatives Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $1.6M · 99% of their budget
  • PF
    Picabu Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $1.4M
  • NF
    NISHIMACHI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -37%

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
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
—
3
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
—
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
5
International Foundation for Arts & Culture Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
7
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Arts Letters and Numbers
Arts & Culture
9
New Art Association
Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
—
11
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
12
Think Global Arts Foundation
International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Picabu Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Development CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 Schools
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 27 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number33%8%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr13%26%20–35yr9%18%35–55yr10%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value33%71%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr13%5%20–35yr9%11%35–55yr10%9%55yr+

The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 71% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
11%
1,086/9,966

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

36 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. 36 of the 43 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/36
Grantees still filing
18/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dead Relatives Foundation — $1,620,575 · PhilanthropyDead Relatives FoundationPicabu Foundation — $1,440,632 · PhilanthropyPicabu FoundationPIVOT FOR HUMANITY INC — $221,650 · OtherPIVOT FOR HUMANITY IN…BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $146,800 · OtherBEARGRASS WRITERS WOR…ODEA HIGH SCHOOL — $135,500 · OtherODEA HIGH SCHOOLNORTHWEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $60,100 · OtherNORTHWEST SYMPHONY OR…NISHIMACHI FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherNISHIMACHI FOUNDATIONSEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL STUDIES — $37,500 · OtherWATTS FOUNDATION — $37,500 · OtherKENNING EDITIONS NFP — $30,000 · Other+11 more — $120,500 · Other+11 moreVILLA ACADEMY — $247,500 · EducationVILLA ACADEMYST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $115,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COL…ROCKHOUSE FOUNDATION — $79,800 · EducationROCKHOUSE FOU…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVER…GROTON SCHOOL — $19,750 · Education+3 more — $20,000 · EducationSHOTGUN PRODUCTIONS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSIXTY INCHES FROM CENTER NFP — $30,000 · Arts & Culture516 Arts — $18,000 · Arts & CultureWOODLAND PATTERN INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLINKS HALL INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFACILITY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEALING CENTER — $36,400 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $25,500 · Recreation & SportsRussian Children's Welfare Society Inc — $16,000 · International
Philanthropy$3,061,207Other$879,550Education$557,050Arts & Culture$157,000Health$48,900Recreation & Sports$25,500International$16,000

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 budgetDead Relatives Foundation — $1,620,575 over 1y, 99% of budgetVILLA ACADEMY — $247,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPIVOT FOR HUMANITY INC — $221,650 over 4y, 78% of budgetBEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $146,800 over 5y, 59% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKHOUSE FOUNDATION — $79,800 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $60,100 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetNISHIMACHI FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL STUDIES — $37,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE HEALING CENTER — $36,400 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSIXTY INCHES FROM CENTER NFP — $30,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL — $19,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budget516 Arts — $18,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRussian Children's Welfare Society Inc — $16,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSmall Press Distribution Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOODLAND PATTERN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLINKS HALL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMAKE LITERARY PRODUCTIONS NFP — $14,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMARA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY HOUSE HAS A DOOR — $6,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTIBETAN ASSOCIATION OF SANTA FE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILD TERRA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Poetry FoundationSeattle FoundationGaylord and Dorothy D…Fidelity FoundationThe Ford FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Mightycause Charitabl…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Poetry FoundationIL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Poetry Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Picard 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report 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 Picard Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Picard 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 43 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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