· Private foundation
The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $4,460 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH SYSTEMS | $1,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,024 |
| JCC OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $855 |
| MOZAIC SENIOR LIFE | $550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SVC OF NEW HAVEN | $396 |
| SPCA INTL | $200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200 |
| THIRTEEN | $150 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL NORWALK | $100 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $100 |
| PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE | $100 |
| UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $825 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +78%
- CDCARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL EDUCATION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +79%
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL5× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TTTHE TOWERS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +58%
- LRLAB RESCUE OF LRCP INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +2%
- TPTHE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +403%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
102 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 175 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TOWERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAB RESCUE OF LRCP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LILLIPUTIAN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WOODBRIDGE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD LEEVER REGIONAL CANCER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PINK AID INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Green Sklarz Foundation Trust · Louis & Dora T Mohill Foundation Inc · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc
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 Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Children's Center of Hamden Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.