· Private foundation
David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| SAVE-A-PET | $1,000 |
| CSA EDUCATION FUND | $500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $500 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE & WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| BENZIE WELLNESS & AQUATIC CENTER | $500 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $450 |
| BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTER VIRGINIA | $200 |
| CSA PILGRIM FUND | $200 |
| WOODGREEN PETS CHARITY | $130 |
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 (FY17–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
38 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680 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
- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +14%
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +321%
- BABENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- SFSCHOOL FOR LITTLE CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $3k
THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +305%- GCGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 68 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 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE AND WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF POINT BETSIE LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA J TIMMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GROW BENZIE INC ↗
- Who funds Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Herbert H and Barbara C Dow Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Seabury Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 David C and Ellen R Petrick 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% 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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