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H & R Peters Family Foundation at a glance

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H & R Peters Family 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$42kPhilanthropy$33kPublic Benefit$28kEducation$20kArts & Culture$19kHealth$13kCrime & Legal$12kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
25
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TROOPS DIRECT$4,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$2,000
CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER$2,000
HOMES FOR VETERANS$2,000
INVEST USA$1,500
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$1,500
MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION$1,500
DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER$1,400
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$1,400
SEMPER FI AMERICA'S FUND$1,000
HELP HEAL VETERANS$1,000
OPERATION FINALLY HOME$1,000
INSTITUTE OF HEARTMATH$1,000
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$1,000
PRAGER U$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BOY'S TOWN: $500 → 12%STAND IN THE GAP: $300 → 15%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%BOY'S TOWN: $500 → 12%STAND IN THE GAP: $300 → 15%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $300 → 7%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $300 → 7%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%BOY'S TOWN: $200 → 12%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
NH
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 88 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
48

Total granted

$176k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-9%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TD
    Troops Direct
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +32%
  • CR
    CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +54%
  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • CO
    CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +37%
  • VH
    VARENNA HOLIDAY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -62%
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.

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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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2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
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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4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
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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6
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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8
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
9
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
10
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
11
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
12
Cna Corporation

Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Freedom Watch Inc Center for Economic Justice. 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

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 155 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/94
Grantees still filing
51/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INVEST USA: $12,268 · OtherINVEST USAFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCSALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $5,000 · OtherOPERATION HOMEFRONT: $3,500 · Other+98 more: $72,176 · Other+98 moreLeadership Institute: $10,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Inst…COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOU…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,680 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH …NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL MILITA…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,200 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $1,100 · Public Benefit+5 more: $1,125 · Public BenefitTroops Direct: $11,000 · PhilanthropyTroops DirectCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $8,850 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL RESEA…Vision Charitable Trust: $2,350 · PhilanthropyVision Charit…MALACHI IIIX FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMALACHI IIIX …GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationPRAGER UN…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,975 · EducationHILLSDALE…Conservative Partnership Institute: $2,100 · EducationConservat…ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationASHLAND U…READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $1,210 · EducationREADING I…CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $750 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $7,400 · HealthINSTITUTE OF HEARTMATH: $4,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $900 · Health+5 more: $1,300 · HealthCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $5,750 · Arts & CultureDixon Historical Society: $4,050 · Arts & CultureTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $1,100 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $750 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL VIETNAM WAR MUSEUM INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $550 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $3,250 · Crime & LegalCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICE DEFENSE INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation: $800 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $450 · Crime & Legal
Other$104,944Public Benefit$28,605Philanthropy$25,400Education$18,735Health$16,600Arts & Culture$13,200Crime & Legal$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTroops Direct: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $8,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $7,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF HEARTMATH: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDixon Historical Society: $4,050 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,975 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR VETERANS A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $2,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVision Charitable Trust: $2,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALACHI IIIX FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICE DEFENSE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM WATCH INC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $1,210 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Farrell Family Founda…Ebs FoundationDonors Trust IncJohn P & Kathryn G Ev…Seckinger Foundation …Bradley Impact Fund I…The Lewis Family Char…Robert and Carole Jul…The W A Mueller Found…Louis J Lombardi & Do…Irving Rothlein Found…The Brenneman Family …
Farrell Family FoundationCA36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation · Robert and Carole Julian Foundation · The W A Mueller Foundation · Louis J Lombardi & Doris Lombardi Family Foundation Inc · Irving Rothlein Foundation · The Brenneman Family Charitable Foundation Inc

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 H & R Peters Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H & R Peters Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report 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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Find your warmest path to H & R Peters Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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