Connecticut · Private foundation
The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18k
- Granted FY2023
- 18
- Grants FY2023
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Greater New Haven Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $18k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $150
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $9,753
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 7
- Total assets, FY2023
- $329k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 18 | $18k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $8k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $28k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $18k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $10k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $15k | 68% |
| FY2017 | 44 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $9,866 | 6 | 0% |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $4,160 | 3 | 0% |
| Carrollwood Day School Education Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Yale New Haven Hospital | $1,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Upper Saco Valley Land Trust | $1,185 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc | $1,150 | 2 | 0% |
| The Towers Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lab Rescue of Lrcp Incorporated | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lilliputian Montessori School | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation give?
- The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $18,179 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Philanthropy (16%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Anti-Defamation League ($10k), Hopkins School Incorporated ($4k), Carrollwood Day School Education Inc ($2k).
- Does The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation based?
- The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation is based in CT.
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