Funding search · EIN 133711334 · Summit, NJ

The Pechter Foundation

Name: The Pechter Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

217
grants reported: $2.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

1 grant matching “pechter” · $100,000

$100,000
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2022
Pechter family open doors scholars

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Phillips Academy4 grants · $217,500
Penn State University5 grants · $212,500
Uja Metrowest4 grants · $185,000
Slifka Center for Jewish Life4 grants · $175,000
St Judes Childrens Hospital4 grants · $145,000
Yale University3 grants · $136,500
The Jed Foundation4 grants · $135,000
Nj Pac2 grants · $130,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer1 grant · $100,000
Prevent Child Abuse Nj4 grants · $100,000

Giving over time

$759,960

2022

$485,358

2023

$983,600

2024

$596,241

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 217 grants.

$187,000
Phillips Academy · Andover, MA · 2022
General
$125,000
Uja Metrowest · Whippany, NJ · 2024
General
$120,000
Nj Pac · Newark, NJ · 2024
General
$105,000
St Judes Childrens Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2024
General
$100,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer · New York, NY · 2024
General
$100,000
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2024
General
$100,000
Emergency Fund for Israel · New York, NY · 2023
General
$100,000
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2022
Pechter family open doors scholars
$100,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
General
$75,000
Slifka Center for Jewish Life · New Haven, CT · 2024
General
$58,128
National Museum of Mathematics · New York, NY · 2025
General
$55,000
Papermill Playhouse · Millburn, NJ · 2024
General
$50,000
Brigham & Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2025
General
$50,000
Overlook Hospital Foundation · Summit, NJ · 2025
General
$50,000
The Jed Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General
$50,000
Slifka Center for Jewish Life · New Haven, CT · 2022
General
$35,000
The Jed Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General
$30,000
St Judes Childrens Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2023
General
$25,000
Prevent Child Abuse Nj · New Brunswick, NJ · 2025
General
$25,000
Slifka Center for Jewish Life · New Haven, CT · 2025
General
$25,000
Teach for America · New York, NY · 2025
General
$25,000
Uja Metrowest · Whippany, NJ · 2025
General
$25,000
Prevent Child Abuse Nj · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
General
$25,000
Prevent Child Abuse Nj · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
General
$25,000
Slifka Center for Jewish Life · New Haven, CT · 2023
General
$25,000
The Jed Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General
$25,000
Uja Metrowest · Whippany, NJ · 2023
General
$25,000
Brigham Health & Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
General
$25,000
Prevent Child Abuse Nj · New Brunswick, NJ · 2022
General
$25,000
The Jed Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General
$25,000
United Jewish Appeal Metrowest · Whippany, NJ · 2022
General
$24,500
Temple Sinai · Summit, NJ · 2023
General
$24,000
Bridges Summit · Summit, NJ · 2025
General
$22,060
Temple Sinai · Summit, NJ · 2025
General
$21,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2025
General
$20,000
Nj Pbs · Englewood, NJ · 2025
General
$20,000
Fcas · Foxborough, MA · 2024
General
$20,000
Nj Pbs · Englewood, NJ · 2024
General
$20,000
Nj Pbs · Englewood, NJ · 2023
General
$20,000
Nj Pbs · Englewood, NJ · 2022
General
$17,000
Temple Sinai · Summit, NJ · 2024
General
$15,500
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
General
$15,000
Overlook Hospital Foundation · Summit, NJ · 2024
General
$15,000
Overlook Hospital Foundation · Summit, NJ · 2023
General
$15,000
Overlook Hospital Foundation · Summit, NJ · 2022
General
$14,605
Temple Sinai · Summit, NJ · 2022
General
$12,000
Bridges Summit · Summit, NJ · 2024
General
$11,203
Wbgo · Newark, NJ · 2025
General
$11,000
Community Food Bank of Nj · Hillside, NJ · 2022
General
$10,250
Phillips Academy · Andover, MA · 2025
General
$10,250
Phillips Academy · Andover, MA · 2024
General
$10,000
Childrens National Hospital · Washington, DC · 2025
General
$10,000
Community Food Bank of Nj · Hillside, NJ · 2025
General
$10,000
Grace · Summit, NJ · 2025
General
$10,000
Liberty Science Center · Jersey City, NJ · 2025
General
$10,000
Michael J Fox Foundation · Hagerstown, MD · 2025
General
$10,000
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation · Winston Salem, NC · 2025
General
$10,000
Sylvia Center · Bronx, NY · 2025
General
$10,000
The Healing Patch · Altoona, PA · 2025
General
$10,000
US Holocaust Museum · Washington, DC · 2025
General
$10,000
Wqxr · New York, NY · 2025
General
$10,000
Grace · Summit, NJ · 2024
General
$10,000
Michael J Fox Foundation · Hagerstown, MD · 2024
General
$10,000
New York Public Radio · New York, NY · 2024
General
$10,000
Temple Beth Israel · Port Washington, NY · 2024
General
$10,000
Wqxr · New York, NY · 2024
General
$10,000
Bridges Summit · Summit, NJ · 2023
General
$10,000
Liberty Science Center · Jersey City, NJ · 2023
General
$10,000
Michael J Fox Foundation · Hagerstown, MD · 2023
General
$10,000
New York Public Radio · New York, NY · 2023
General
$10,000
Nj Pac · Newark, NJ · 2023
General
$10,000
Phillips Academy · Andover, MA · 2023
General
$10,000
Sarah Lawrence College · Bronxville, NY · 2023
General
$10,000
Summit Ymca · Summit, NJ · 2023
General
$10,000
The Connection · Summit, NJ · 2023
General
$10,000
American Committee for Tel Aviv · New York, NY · 2022
General
$10,000
Liberty Science Center · Jersey City, NJ · 2022
General
$10,000
Michael J Fox Foundation · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
General
$10,000
Sarah Lawrence College · Bronxville, NY · 2022
General
$10,000
The Grace Project · Warrington, PA · 2022
General
$10,000
Uja Metrowest · Whippany, NJ · 2022
Ukraine emergency fund
$10,000
Understood for All · New York, NY · 2022
General
$10,000
Wqxr · New York, NY · 2022
General
$9,000
Heartstrings · Greensboro, NC · 2022
General
$8,128
Museum of Mathematics · New York, NY · 2023
General
$7,500
Penn State University · State College, PA · 2022
General
$7,400
Wbgo · Newark, NJ · 2024
General
$7,400
Wbgo · Newark, NJ · 2023
General
$6,100
Summit Pba · Summit, NJ · 2024
General
$6,000
The Mount Sinai Hospital · New York, NY · 2024
General
$5,050
National Museum of Mathematics · New York, NY · 2023
General
$5,000
Fcas · Foxborough, MA · 2025
General
$5,000
Harvard Business School · Boston, MA · 2025
General
$5,000
Heartstrings Counseling Services · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2025
General
$5,000
Hss · New York, NY · 2025
General
$5,000
Momatr · New York, NY · 2025
General
$5,000
Ola Foundation · Atlantic Beach, NY · 2025
General
$5,000
Papermill Playhouse · Millburn, NJ · 2025
General
$5,000
Penn State Altoona · Altoona, PA · 2025
General
$5,000
Shriners Hospitals for Children · Tampa, FL · 2025
General

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.