How much does David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation give?

David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $2,520,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (91%), Environment (5%), Arts & Culture (2%).

Who are David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Illinois Wesleyan University ($8.5M), Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy ($162k), Friends of the Garden Theater ($100k).

Does David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation 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 David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Herbert H and Barbara C Dow Foundation, Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation.

Where is David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation based?

David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation is based in MI.

David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation

David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$2.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$8.5MEnvironment$425kArts & Culture$159kFood & Nutrition$94kAnimals$71kHealth$43kRecreation & Sports$34kReligion$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $8k
$10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$250k+1 grant · $2.5M

$300

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER	$500
CSA EDUCATION FUND	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.4M · 38 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.4M

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+53%

Still filing today

63%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

IW
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +14%
GT
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
8× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +321%
BA
BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +70%

Funded once

SF
SCHOOL FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
one grant, 2022 · $3k
DA
Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals
one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +12%
GC
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
one grant, 2019 · $1k

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.

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

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…

Animals

American Humane Association

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…

Animals

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

World Animal Protection

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…

Animals

Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals

For the Fishes

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

34/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$8,523,250Other$376,105Environment$200,750Arts & Culture$132,750Religion$92,270Animals$65,000Recreation & Sports$30,500

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

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL17.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David C and Ellen R Petrick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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