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Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$316k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
71
Grants FY2025
68
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
56 to 68
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$6.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Civil RightsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving69$304k20%
FY202468$271k16%
FY202367$239k57%
FY202156$327kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$485kFood & Nutrition$257kHuman Services$120kHealth$116kRecreation & Sports$60kHousing & Shelter$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kInternational$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fox Valley Food for Health Inc$85,00046%
Feed the Children Inc$50,00040%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$40,00040%
Glenwood Academy$40,00040%
University of Chicago$40,00010%
Food for the Poor Inc$37,50040%
Silver Birch Ranch Inc & Affiliate$35,00030%
Benet Academy$30,0004n/a
Childrens Oncology Services Inc$27,50030%
Northwest Community Hospital Foundation$20,00010%
Purple Plunge$20,0001n/a
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill$15,00040%
Stanton Rowing Foundation Inc$15,00014%
Compassion International Incorporated$12,5004n/a
Feed My Starving Children Inc$11,00040%
Warm Blankets Childrens Foundation Inc Dba Kinship United$10,00040%
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness$10,00010%
Global Action$10,00040%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$10,00010%
Lake County Crisis Center$10,00040%
Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center Inc$8,50040%
The Night Ministry$8,50040%
Little City Foundation$5,00010%
Bridges Fc Nfp$5,000114%
Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc$5,0001n/a
Holy Family Ministries$4,00040%
The Harbour Inc$4,00040%
Gumbo Limbo Coastal Stewards Inc$4,00040%
La Casa Norte$4,00040%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation$4,00040%
Familyforward$4,00040%
Pacific Garden Mission$4,0004n/a
New Moms Inc$4,00040%
Casa Lake County Inc$3,00030%
The Soup Kitchen Inc$3,00030%
The Navigators$3,0003n/a
Shelter Inc$3,00030%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$3,00030%
Evangelical Covenant Church$2,0002n/a
The Santiago Partnership$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFox Valley Food for Health Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlenwood Academy: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSilver Birch Ranch Inc & Affiliate: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwest Community Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Home & Aid Society of Ill: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStanton Rowing Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWarm Blankets Childrens Foundation Inc Dba Kinship United: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Coalition to End Homelessness: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Action: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake County Crisis Center: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle City Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridges Fc Nfp: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHoly Family Ministries: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harbour Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGumbo Limbo Coastal Stewards Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLa Casa Norte: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Central Social Services Corporation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamilyforward: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNew Moms Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Lake County Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santiago Partnership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL21.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation · The FJK Private Foundation · John Marshall Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago 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.

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About Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp

How much does Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp give?
Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp reported 71 grants totaling $316,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 68 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Fox Valley Food for Health Inc ($85k), Feed the Children Inc ($50k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($40k).
Does Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.
Where is Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp based?
Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp is based in IL.

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 121 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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