How much did Esper A Petersen Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of Esper A Petersen Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

greystoneveteranscancerresearchlos angelestraining

2019

heritageinspiringabuseeducational excursionresearchpreservelos angeles

2020

israellos angelesmedicalchangesuffering

2021

rescuekeepsuffering

2022

studentsresponsible dogdog ownershiprescueventurakeepanimal

2023

rescue rehabilitationhomeless petsstudentssmallresponsible dogdog ownershipeducate

2024

appreciationrescue rehabilitationlargehomeless petseducatestudentsdogs

2025

appreciationhomeless petstherapiesrescue rehabilitationlargeeducatestudents

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $83k
$10k–50k12 grants · $203k
$50k–250k7 grants · $475k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants

Schwab Charitable$154,758
Westlake Christian Academy$70,000
VC Colab Foundation$50,368
Cedars Sinai Medical Center$50,000
Madison Project at Santa Monica Col$50,000
Los Angeles Opera$50,000
Salvation Army$50,000
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra$40,000
Nenn Foundation$25,000
The Foundation for Pierce College$25,000
Friends of Robinson Gardens$22,500
Planned Parenthood$15,000
OC Pom Rescue$15,000
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$10,000
Bear Valley Comm Healthcare Dist Fo$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 64 repeat orgs$546k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+43%

Still filing today

53%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

Cedars Sinai Medical Center
6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +20%
LA
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
3× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +205%
OP
OC Pom Rescue
4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +14% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

NW
New West Symphony Association
one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -25%
KS
Kindred Spirits Care Farmgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +164%
FF
Funds for Resource Conservation
one grant, 2017 · $50k

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

04Your field

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.

The Labelle Foundation Inc

The Labelle Foundation is a Los Angeles-based animal rescue organization devoted to saving, rehabilitating, and advocating for dogs. Through engaging the community far and wide, The Labelle Foundation aims to serve the animal rescue…

Animals

Santa Cruz Co Animal Shelter Foundation

To support santa cruz county animal services authority through education, public awareness, fund raising, support of current projects, and establishment of new projects.

Animals

Downtown Dog Rescue

Downtown Dog Rescue is a non-profit organization that belives in second chances for both dogs and people. We rescue dogs and provide sevices for low income pet owners in underserved communities in Los Angeles County.

Animals

Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association

The greater los angeles zoo association ("glaza"), the official support organization of the los angeles zoo and botanical gardens ("zoo"), is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of establishing, developing, beautifying,…

Animals

Sante Dor Foundation

Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.

Animals

Labradors and Friends Dog Rescue

Dedicated to rescuing labrador retrievers and mixed breed dogs in california and placing them in loving homes. founded in 2007, the all-volunteer group, is comprised of men and women who work passionately to save dogs from high kill…

Animals

High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescue is a no-kill shelter located in Portola California that is dedicated to saving the lives of homeless adoptable dogs that can no longer be held at county shelters. We are a nonprofit organization focused on…

Animals

Humane Society of the Sierra Foothills

To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.

Animals

Southern California Shiba Inu Rescue

Southern California Shiba Inu Rescue is a group of volunteer dog lovers whose mission is to rescue, provide sanctuary, and ultimately to re-home abandoned, stray and neglected dogs. Whenever possible we also assist dogs who, because of…

Animals

Santa Barbara County

To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.

Animals

Sale Ranch Sanctuary

The purpose of Sale Ranch Animal Sanctuary is to rescue, rehabilitate and offer refuge to neglected and abused animals in the state of California.

Animals

Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is dedicated to re-homing dogs from high-kill shelters and dogs from owners who can no longer care for them.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For the Children and the most unlike its peers is The Danish Immigrant Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/66

the rest of the field

13%

13,712/105,457

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.

05the grantee network

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/59

Grantees still filing

43/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,331,330Environment$646,618Health$445,000Animals$429,214Human Services$276,300Arts & Culture$186,500Religion$30,000

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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA24.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Colburn Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal · Wm Keck Foundation · Ventura County Community Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors · Liberty Hill Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Sempra Foundation

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 organisation Esper A Petersen 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VC Colab Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462638015 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on VC Colab Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Esper A Petersen Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Esper A Petersen Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Esper A Petersen Foundation?

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Esper A Petersen Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Esper A Petersen Foundation?

More from the funding graph