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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.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,199
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,549
Organizations funded a year
8 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$360k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$53k47%
FY202412$45k50%
FY202314$54k50%
FY202212$52k17%
FY202113$46k15%
FY202019$43k63%
FY201911$41k73%
FY20188$19k38%
75% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$115kHealth$58kReligion$40kHuman Services$21kInternational$20kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
IA
OH
PA
KY
VA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$21,01050%
Southwest Options for Women$20,80232%
Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc$10,00030%
Students for Life of America Inc$9,96420%
Roads to Life Tanzania Inc$8,00040%
Prairie Catholic Schools$7,6171n/a
Covenant Church of Naples$7,4282n/a
Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc$5,5491n/a
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$5,25220%
J-Walkers Inc$5,0001n/a
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$21,01050%
Southwest Options for Women$20,80232%
Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc$10,00030%
Students for Life of America Inc$9,96420%
Roads to Life Tanzania Inc$8,00040%
Prairie Catholic Schools$7,6171n/a
Covenant Church of Naples$7,4282n/a
Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc$5,5491n/a
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$5,25220%
J-Walkers Inc$5,0001n/a
Community Health Services Corporation$5,00010%
Y2 Believe Inc$5,00011%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$5,00010%
St John the Baptist Catholic Church$5,0001n/a
Headwaters Food Pantry Inc$4,07724%
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc$3,8501n/a
Minnetonka Public Schools$3,1261n/a
Life Relaunch Inc$2,50011%
Rivers and Bluffs Animal Shelter$2,50011%
Fireweed Community Woodshop$2,00011%
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc$2,0001n/a
Franciscan Brothers of Peace Inc$1,2041n/a
Wayforward Resources Inc$1,00010%
St Francis Xavier Catholic Church$3721n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNeighborhood Health Clinic Inc: $21,010 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwest Options for Women: $20,802 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAllegro Organizational Solutions Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $9,964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoads to Life Tanzania Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $5,252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Services Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetY2 Believe Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeadwaters Food Pantry Inc: $4,077 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLife Relaunch Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRivers and Bluffs Animal Shelter: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFireweed Community Woodshop: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWayforward Resources Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc give?
Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $52,744 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (15%), Religion (11%).
Who are Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc ($21k), Southwest Options for Women ($21k), Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc ($10k).
Does Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc based?
Carolyn M & Leary E Peterson Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 57 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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