Wisconsin · Private foundation
Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $128k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,824
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 14 | $128k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $118k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $124k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $135k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $111k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $107k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $106k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $116k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | $83,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Edmundson Art Foundation Inc | $52,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $49,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Science Center of Iowa | $46,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Orchard Place Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Des Moines Symphony Association | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Drake University | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $24,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Children and Families of Iowa | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | $83,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Edmundson Art Foundation Inc | $52,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $49,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Science Center of Iowa | $46,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Orchard Place Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Des Moines Symphony Association | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Drake University | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $24,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Children and Families of Iowa | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Des Moines Performing Arts | $14,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Des Moines Community Playhouse | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa | $10,847 | 2 | 0% |
| Tallgrass Theatre Company | $3,933 | 1 | 2% |
| Camp Fire Heart of Iowa | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr 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: EMC Insurance Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Bookey Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr with peer funders
About Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr
- How much does Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr give?
- Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr reported 14 grants totaling $128,471 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth and Shelter Services Inc ($83k), Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ($53k), Ellipsis Inc ($50k).
- Does Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include EMC Insurance Foundation, Meredith Corporation Foundation, The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation.
- Where is Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr based?
- Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr is based in WI.
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