· Private foundation
The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k642 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k26 grants · $463k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $548k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $547,500 |
| BRYANT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CHILD HAVEN | $30,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $30,000 |
| THREE SQUARE | $30,000 |
| HIS MANSION MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR | $25,000 |
| US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BUTTON HOLE | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
397 repeat relationships — 274 still active in FY2025, 123 since wound down; 148 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k 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
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +9%
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +277%
BUTTON HOLE5× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- PNPICERNE NFP HOUSING INCone grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -99% · 100% of their budget
- WIWALKING IN LOVE INCone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -89% · 90% of their budget
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +36%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Education and Research
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University and the most unlike its peers is The Lovey 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 921 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PICERNE NFP HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING IN LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
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: The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Beacon Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The John and Gracilda Murphy 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 Picerne Family Charitable 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.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Western New England University — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Leo University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 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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