Wisconsin · Private foundation
Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $470k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $116k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $195k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $57k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $100k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $439k | 51% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $86k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $103k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $49k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Door County YMCA INC | $609,325 | 8 | 9% |
| Northern Sky Theater Inc | $71,200 | 8 | 1% |
| United Way of Door County Inc | $38,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Crossroads at Big Creek Inc | $24,100 | 5 | 2% |
| Doorway to Learning Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Straub Foundation | $17,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Door County Habitat for Humanity Ltd | $16,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Joseph Catholic Church | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northern Door Childrens Center Inc | $9,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Door Community Auditorium Corp | $7,100 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc · Lutsey Family Foundation · Charles & Marcia Larsenanthony & Priscilla Beadell Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · United Way of Door County Inc · Hislop Family Foundation · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation give?
- Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $115,540 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (64%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (5%).
- Who are Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Door County YMCA INC ($609k), Northern Sky Theater Inc ($71k), United Way of Door County Inc ($39k).
- Does Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Door County Community Foundation Inc, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation based?
- Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation is based in WI.
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