· Private foundation
Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOOR COUNTY YMCA | $27,000 |
| NORTHERN SKY THEATER | $20,000 |
| THIRD AVENUE PLAYWORKS | $11,260 |
| CHILDREN FIRST DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $7,500 |
| DOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| USMMA ALUMNI ASSOC & FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI | $3,000 |
| DOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM | $2,500 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH | $2,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| PARKER SCHOOL FUND | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| COLIN AND FRIENDS CONCERT | $1,500 |
| MONTANA FREE PRESS | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- DCDoor County YMCA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $609k · revenue +30%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +247%
CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC5× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- DCDOOR COUNTY YMCA ENDOWMENT FDone grant, 2024 · $100k
- YYMCAone grant, 2022 · $26k
- EHEGG HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
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To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Door County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission Partners for Christ Aka Community Health Initiatives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 114 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 Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds Doorway to Learning Inc ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
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: 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
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 Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.