How much does Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation give?

Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $238,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (21%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($80k), Common Cause ($55k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($50k).

Does Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation based?

Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation is based in VA.

Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation

Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$239k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$26k

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.

Civil Rights$197kArts & Culture$184kHuman Services$109kEducation$91kInternational$72kPublic Benefit$70kFood & Nutrition$56kHealth$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $98k
$10k–50k11 grants · $141k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
National Public Radio	$25,500
PBS Foundation	$25,000
Prep for Prep	$10,000
CARE	$10,000
Doctors without Borders	$10,000
Fresh Air Fund	$10,000
Common Cause Education Fund	$10,000
Vassar College	$10,000
Planned Parenthood	$10,000
American Civil Liberties Union	$10,000
Southern Poverty Law Center	$10,000
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund	$9,000
Air Force Enlisted Village	$8,000
Justice High School Educational Foundation	$8,000
Bread for the City	$7,000

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$808k · 52 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$808k

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+29%

Still filing today

58%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

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SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +10%
CC
COMMON CAUSE
6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +159%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +98%

Funded once

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
WC
Wellesley Collegegraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
UH
US Holocaust Memorial Museam
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brewster Ponds Coalition. 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

54 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. 54 of the 89 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)

54/54

Grantees still filing

37/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$535,200Arts & Culture$133,900Crime & Legal$87,000International$70,000Food & Nutrition$55,600Education$42,400Environment$31,900

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 Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Janina Petschek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

12report 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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