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The Pick Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$181kReligion$79kEducation$66kArts & Culture$11kInternational$6kHousing & Shelter$3kPhilanthropy$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARC CENTER FOR DISABILITIES$10,000
BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION$5,000
GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE$5,000
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY$3,400
ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS ST PATRICKS DIV I$3,000
KOLPING YOUTH INTERNATIONAL$3,000
LYME DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
SHRINE OF ST JOSEPH$2,000
TURNING POINT USA$2,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOYS TOWN: $300 → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%PARC CENTER FOR DISABILITIES: $10k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $300 → 17%PARC CENTER FOR DISABILITIES: $5k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%ADULT DAY CENTER OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $500 → 5%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

ID
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
AZ
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$261k · 24 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
30

Total granted

$261k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+8%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionFood & 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

  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +58%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    2× · 2022–2024 · $42k · revenue +95%
  • KY
    KOLPING YOUTH INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMEDISYS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • PL
    PROJECT LYME
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -31%
  • CC
    CARON CENTER - BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
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.

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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
2
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

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9
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Hope Network; the most unlike its peers is Salt & Light Radio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $44,500 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTERDIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $32,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF METUCHENST PIUS X CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherST PIUS X CHURCHCARON CENTER - BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAM: $10,500 · OtherNJ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $10,000 · Other+34 more: $48,400 · Other+34 moreTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $42,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FO…GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $21,225 · HealthGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INCAMEDISYS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthAMEDISYS FOUNDATIONPROJECT LYME: $10,500 · HealthPROJECT LYMEMilestone House Inc: $7,250 · HealthMilestone House IncKOLPING YOUTH INTERNATIONAL: $16,950 · ReligionSalt & Light Radio Inc: $1,000 · ReligionPARC INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,550 · Human Services+2 more: $1,050 · Human ServicesEXODUS SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,000 · EducationCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $500 · EducationBRIGHTER CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$200,400Health$100,975Religion$17,950Human Services$17,600Education$12,500International$6,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $44,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $21,225 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMEDISYS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKOLPING YOUTH INTERNATIONAL: $16,950 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPARC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $10,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMilestone House Inc: $7,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGHTER CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONE STAR BULLDOG CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOMERSET HILLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalt & Light Radio Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdult Day Center of Somerset County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 2y, 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…The Sandy Hill Founda…Verizon FoundationInvestors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Pfizer Foundation…Chubb Charitable Foun…National Philanthropi…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Sandy Hill Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Pick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Caldwell University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Parc Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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How do I get to The Pick Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pick Foundation Inc 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 58 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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