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David B Peterson Foundation at a glance

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David B Peterson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$460k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.4MArts & Culture$181kHealth$169kHuman Services$80kHousing & Shelter$50kEnvironment$25kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $363k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARLEM ACADEMY$200,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$62,500
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC$50,000
BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN$50,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$25,000
HEALING THE CHILDREN NORTHEAST INCORPORATED$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR ART & PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES$20,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$15,000
ENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC$10,000
ENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $50k → 10%BEAU BIDEN FDN FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$2.7M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+39%

Still filing today

70%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HT
    HEALING THE CHILDREN NORTHEAST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +91%
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +60%
  • TC
    The Cedars of Marin
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BG
    BANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +0%
  • NS
    NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +181%
  • FG
    FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
11
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dwight-Englewood School; the most unlike its peers is North Salem Volunteer Ambulance Cor. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARLEM ACADEMY: $2,271,827 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $126,000 · Education+2 more: $11,000 · EducationHEALING THE CHILDREN NORTHEAST INC: $140,000 · OtherHEALING TH…The Cedars of Marin: $50,000 · OtherThe Cedars…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL T…THE NEW YORK STATE TROOPER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherSPACE ON RYDER FARM: $10,000 · OtherTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $12,000 · OtherNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $27,500 · HealthNORTH SALEM VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COR: $1,000 · HealthBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · InternationalNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Environment
Education$2,408,827Other$282,000Arts & Culture$151,000Human Services$75,000Health$28,500International$25,000Environment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $2,271,827 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetHEALING THE CHILDREN NORTHEAST INC: $140,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $126,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $75,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPES DOOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SALEM VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROTON FALLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Holly Peterson Founda…The Dinan Family Foun…Michael a Peterson Fo…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Holly Peterson FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Holly Peterson Foundation · The Dinan Family Foundation · Michael a Peterson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David B Peterson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David B Peterson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to David B Peterson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David B Peterson 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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