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The Pickwick Foundation Inc

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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$36kArts & Culture$25kEducation$20kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENWICH ACADEMY INC$10,000
FOSTER PARROTS LTD$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 (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACT NOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ACT NOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$68k · 7 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$68k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GA
    GREENWICH ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • FP
    FOSTER PARROTS LTD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • AA
    ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • NH
    NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +59%
  • NY
    NEW YORK COMMON PANTRYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%

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.

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Norwalk Seaport Association Inc

The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…

Arts & Culture
2
The North Shore Land Alliance Inc

To conserve and steward long island's natural and historic lands, waters and environmental resources. through education, outreach and volunteerism, we connect people to nature and inspire a community conservation ethic.

Environment
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…

Arts & Culture
5
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
6
The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust

Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…

Animals
7
Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment
8
Northern Neck Land Conservancy

Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…

Environment
9
Nantucket Arts Council Inc

Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.

Arts & Culture
10
Aquidneck Island Planning Commission

Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.

Community Improvement
11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOSTER PARROTS LTD — $9,500 · OtherFOSTER PARROTS LTDPRIMUM NON NOCERE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherPRIMUM NON NOCERE FOUNDATIONTHE ALEX FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · OtherTHE ALEX FOUNDATION INCWORLD PARROT TRUST USA — $2,500 · OtherWORLD PARROT TRUST USAAVIAN WELFARE COALITION — $2,500 · OtherAVIAN WELFARE COALITIONZOO KNOXVILLE — $2,500 · OtherZOO KNOXVILLENANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,500 · OtherNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPM…ACT NOW FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · OtherACT NOW FOUNDATION INC+4 more — $2,500 · Other+4 moreNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $14,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASS…ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF N…Inliquidcom Inc — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS LTD — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY I…TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentTUCKERNUCK LAND…WYNCOTE AUDUBON SOCIETY — $1,000 · EnvironmentWYNCOTE AUDUBON…FOSTER PARROTS LTD — $10,000 · AnimalsFOSTER PARROTS…Wildlife Conservation Society — $5,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conse…NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $5,000 · Food & NutritionNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC — $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$31,500Arts & Culture$24,500Education$20,000Environment$16,000Animals$15,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,500

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 budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER PARROTS LTD — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACT NOW FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInliquidcom Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYNCOTE AUDUBON SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HOMESTEAD INC OF NANTUCKET — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS LTD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $500 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.

Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Clara Foundation Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Pickwick Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Act Now Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association1% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Pickwick Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pickwick 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 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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