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Christopher Sheller Peacock Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192020.

Religion$43kHealth$41kSocial Science$26kEducation$6kYouth Development$2kAnimals$700International$700Arts & Culture$600Other$0
02FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k17 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Napa medical research fdn$20,000
grace Episcopal Church$13,000
Hoover INstitute$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,552
williams college$5,100
SAE EXPRESSION INSTITUTE$1,191
QUEEN OF THE VALLEY HOSPITAL$1,000
the guardsman$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
lake forest academy$500
Doctors Without Borders$500
KQED$500
St Luke's Episcopal Church$300
THE WHITE BARN$100
St Helena Volunteer Fire Dept$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE WHITE BARN: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
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CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$148k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$148k
$7k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Williams College
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST ACADEMY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $700 · revenue +45%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $700 · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • MC
    McMillan Church
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CF
    Cameo Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $425

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
2
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

3
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
4
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
5
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
6
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

9
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.

12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The White Barn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAPA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherNAPA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $36,255 · OtherGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $34,403 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHoover INstitute — $20,000 · OtherHoover INstituteSAE Expression INstitute — $6,191 · OtherMcMillan Church — $5,000 · Other+14 more — $6,325 · OtherWilliams College — $5,200 · EducationLAKE FOREST ACADEMY — $700 · EducationThe Guardsmen — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $700 · InternationalKQED INC — $500 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $200 · AnimalsTHE WHITE BARN — $100 · Human Services
Other$148,174Education$5,900Youth Development$2,000International$700Arts & Culture$500Animals$200Human Services$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNAPA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWilliams College — $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guardsmen — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST HELENA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHITE BARN — $100 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 NAPA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds The Guardsmen
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds KQED INC
  • Who funds ST HELENA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE WHITE BARN

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Christopher Sheller Peacock 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Christopher Sheller Peacock Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Christopher Sheller Peacock Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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