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The Pratt Family Foundation at a glance

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The Pratt Family Foundation

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.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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$414kArts & Culture$235kEducation$180kFood & Nutrition$109kEnvironment$16kYouth Development$7kInternational$6kHuman Services$1k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $89k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$14,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$317k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC$50,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC$35,000
COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN$30,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$14,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$10,000
CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC$1,625
122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC$1,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $160k → 11%IONA COLLEGE: $3k → 9%NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $50k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE DANCE ACADEMY: $20k → 20%BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ART: $1k → 28%THE JIM ARDEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%IONA COLLEGE: $3k → 9%NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $50k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $35k → 20%GREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCORPORATED: $5k → 9%IONA COLLEGE: $3k → 9%CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC: $7k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $33k → 20%GREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $1k → 9%CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC: $2k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $30k → 20%CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC: $2k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $21k → 20%CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC: $1k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $20k → 20%CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC: $1k → 17%COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $10k → 20%CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NYC: $1k → 17%THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $1k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $11k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $11k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $11k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $10k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $64k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $14k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $14k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $9k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $6k → 17%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $40k → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $35k → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $30k → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $25k → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $22k → 17%THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE: $20k → 17%FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $15k → 17%SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 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.
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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 17% of The Pratt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Pratt Family 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$772k · 12 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$772k
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+26%

Still filing today

92%
67%

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 & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +119%
  • CB
    COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN
    6× · 2019–2025 · $148k · revenue +60%
  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $160k · revenue +12%
  • CB
    COVENANT BALLET THEATRE DANCE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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4
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
5
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
6
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is Society for the Relief of Women and Children. 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $186,500 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INCNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $100,000 · HealthNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CE…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCOVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $148,100 · Arts & CultureCOVENANT BALLET THEATRE O…NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC+4 more: $14,165 · Arts & Culture+4 moreLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVE…IONA UNIVERSITY: $8,820 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $125,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KE…COVENANT BALLET THEATRE DANCE ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherCOVENANT BALLET T…+4 more: $7,000 · OtherCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $108,700 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON…CITY GARDENS CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $16,100 · EnvironmentGREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCORPORATED: $6,000 · Youth Development
Health$288,500Arts & Culture$215,265Education$179,820Other$152,000Food & Nutrition$108,700Environment$16,100Youth Development$6,000

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 budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $186,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN: $148,100 over 6y, 12% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $108,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $53,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GARDENS CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $16,100 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $8,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budget122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $1,165 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 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.

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Pratt Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Pratt Family 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 22 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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