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Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of CAROLYN M & LEARY E PETERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGRACE FOUNDATION | $5,549 |
| COVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLES | $5,549 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $5,274 |
| SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN | $5,274 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| WISCONSIN WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION | $3,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,199 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| RIVERS AND BLUFFS ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| FIREWEED COMMUNITY WOODSHOP | $2,000 |
| ANNA MARIE'S SHELTER | $1,549 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC5× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +14%
- SOSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +2%
- AOALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- HFHOLY FAMILY PARISHone grant, 2018 · $8k
- PCPRAIRIE CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- SJST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Horizon home care & hospice, inc. is a full-service provider offering a wide range of specialty services to meet the needs of patients in southeastern wisconsin. as an extension of a network of acute-care hospitals and other health care…
Wisconsin collaborative for healthcare quality, inc. publicly reports and brings meaning to performance measurement information that improves the quality and affordability of healthcare in wisconsin, in turn improving the health of…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivers and Bluffs Animal Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 57 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 NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Roads to Life Tanzania Inc ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Y2 BELIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Life Relaunch Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERS AND BLUFFS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc 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.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% 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.
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