· Private foundation
Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of HENRY G & NORMA PETERSON CHARITABLE TR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $42,824 |
| ORCHARD PLACE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EDMUNDSON ART FOUNDATION | $9,900 |
| DES MOINES SYMPHONY | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS | $7,500 |
| VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA INC | $5,847 |
| YOUTH & SHELTER SERVICES | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $5,000 |
| DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| ELLIPSIS | $5,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| SEEDS | $5,000 |
| BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA | $4,900 |
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 (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +110%
- EAEdmundson Art Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +53%
- EIELLIPSIS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- TTTALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -10%
- CFCAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWAone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -12%
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.
To build the foundation of lifelong learning by promoting the power of play.
Raise funds and advocate provide for the des moines public library system.
To provide a physical location for greater des moines residents to pursue their artistic passions.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
The mission of the des moines arts festival is to enrich the quality of life in central iowa by creating an opportunity for people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds to embrace the arts.
Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.
Ignite the natural curiousity of every child through the power of play in a dynamic, awe-inspiring environment.
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The des moines water works park foundation is dedicated to developing and executing the master plan created for water works park. the plan turns the park into a national model incorporating recreation, education and conservation within the…
To foster the enjoyment of, and support for, fine symphonic music through quality performances, education and community involvement.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Community Playhouse and the most unlike its peers is Iowa Public Radio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE HEART OF IOWA ↗
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: 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
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 Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr 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.
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.