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The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
672
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$548k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.5MHealth$728kPhilanthropy$721kHuman Services$632kHousing & Shelter$421kFood & Nutrition$420kReligion$385kYouth Development$375kOther$0
02FY2025 · 672 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k642 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $463k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $548k
$1,250
Median grant
25
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$547,500
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$100,000
NAZARETH ACADEMY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION$35,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$30,000
THREE SQUARE$30,000
CHILD HAVEN$30,000
BUTTON HOLE$25,000
HIS MANSION MINISTRIES$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR$25,000
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$25,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$20,000
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ECHO OF BRANDON: $5k → 13%AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA: $2k → 10%BOYS TOWN CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $7k → 11%ECHO OF BRANDON: $5k → 13%ECHO OF BRANDON: $5k → 13%HARVEST TIME INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%BABY DJ INC: $8k → 13%THE LOVEY PROJECT: $1k → 7%BABY DJ INC: $8k → 13%HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA: $1k → 11%HARVEST TIME INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%BABY DJ INC: $5k → 13%ECHO OF BRANDON: $5k → 13%HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA: $1k → 11%BABY DJ INC: $5k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%A KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY: $8k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $7k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $7k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $15k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $15k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $13k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $5k → 14%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $3k → 14%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 14%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 7%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 7%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 7%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 7%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 7%SHRI SERVICE CORPS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $7k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $18k → 14%ARISE: $1k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $17k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $13k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $9k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $6k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 14%PROVIDENCE RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%PROVIDENCE RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Picerne Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 397 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

397
371

Total granted

$11M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

16%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BU
    BRYANT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +9%
  • UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
    8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +277%
  • BUTTON HOLE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +171%

Funded once

  • PN
    PICERNE NFP HOUSING INC
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -99% · 100% of their budget
  • WI
    WALKING IN LOVE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -89% · 90% of their budget
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +36%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
4
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
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
Regis College

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…

Education
8
St Mary's University

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.

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9
Northeastern University
Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
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Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; 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.
05the grantee network

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/117
Grantees still filing
81/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,845,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCCRANSTON HIGH SCHOOL EAST: $639,050 · OtherCRANSTON HIGH SCHOOL EASTDAVID R PICERNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $582,000 · OtherDAVID R PICERNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONCRANSTON HIGH SCHOOL WEST: $498,750 · OtherCRANSTON HIGH SCHOOL WESTPILGRIM HIGH SCHOOL: $395,000 · OtherTOLL GATE HIGH SCHOOL: $380,000 · Other+152 more: $4,666,250 · Other+152 moreBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationBRYANT UN…UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $220,250 · EducationUNIVERSIT…RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $127,500 · EducationRHODE ISL…SOPHIA ACADEMY: $61,500 · EducationSOPHIA AC…+17 more: $234,425 · Education+17 morePICERNE NFP HOUSING INC: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $68,048 · Human ServicesTIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $42,500 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesBABY DJ: $25,000 · Human ServicesECHO OF BRANDON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $12,100 · Human Services+3 more: $24,500 · Human ServicesBUTTON HOLE: $135,700 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $102,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND FRONTIER CAMP CORP: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Nordic Sport: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $247,250 · Community ImprovementRush University Medical Center: $120,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $100,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 · Health
Other$9,006,050Education$943,675Housing & Shelter$400,000Human Services$346,148Recreation & Sports$284,200Community Improvement$247,250Health$246,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,845,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetPICERNE NFP HOUSING INC: $400,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $247,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $220,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUTTON HOLE: $135,700 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $127,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $102,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $88,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $77,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetWALKING IN LOVE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $68,048 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $61,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTISTS' SCHOOL INC: $53,208 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FRONTIER CAMP CORP: $35,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $31,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $26,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFoster Change: $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBABY DJ: $25,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetECHO OF BRANDON INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $15,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $12,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSA Nordic Sport: $11,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WARWICK: $10,798 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWE HEART LIVES INC: $10,172 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $10,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Champlin FoundationPA51× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Picerne Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Picerne Family Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 921 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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