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The Pkl Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Pkl 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$159kHealth$21kEducation$17kRecreation & Sports$14kHousing & Shelter$8kCrime & Legal$5kReligion$4kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $21,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,910 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,660 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New York City Center$10,000
Glyndebourne America Inc$3,000
Central Park Conservancy Inc$2,500
The Morgan Library & Museum$1,500
Glyndebourne America Inc$1,500
Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc$1,000
Rockefeller University$1,000
Transport Group Inc$750
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 6 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$259k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +45%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +37%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • MI
    MASTERVOICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -11%
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
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
7
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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8
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
9
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
10
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Parks Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bedford Fire Department Scholarship Fund 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

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC+6 more: $13,250 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SIN…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOC…The George Washington University: $10,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $5,000 · EducationWellesley College: $2,500 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $4,450 · OtherWorld Monument Fund: $2,500 · OtherHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $2,500 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $1,000 · OtherBedford Fire Department Scholarship Fund Inc: $500 · OtherBEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 · OtherWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherBedford Fire Department Scholarship Fund Inc: $500 · Other+1 more: $100 · OtherHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC: $2,000 · International
Arts & Culture$223,250Human Services$25,000Education$18,500Recreation & Sports$13,500Other$14,050Housing & Shelter$7,500International$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 28 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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