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Holly Peterson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$355k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$1.4MHealth$182kInternational$112kEnvironment$73kHousing & Shelter$50kFood & Nutrition$30kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $358k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $726k
  • $250k+1 grant · $355k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$355,309
BROWN UNIVERSITY$175,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
SPEED ART MUSEUM$76,000
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING & SCULPTURE$75,000
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$50,000
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM$50,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$50,000
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$50,000
GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL$40,000
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$35,000
THE KITCHEN$30,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$27,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SNACK & FRIENDS INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 26% of Holly Peterson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Holly Peterson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 22 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
43

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

95%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $765k · revenue +305%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $390k · revenue +69%
  • TA
    TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $210k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +44%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +26%
  • DU
    DUNELM USA
    one grant, 2022 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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9
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
10
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
11
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
12
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Replay Polo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportJewish Community Organizati…Equine Therapy ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,693

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
42/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $765,309 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $390,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $230,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INCTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $210,000 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $210,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $125,500 · Arts & CultureSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC — $112,500 · Arts & Culture+24 more — $600,000 · Arts & Culture+24 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY…DUNELM USA — $125,000 · OtherDUNELM USACENTRE POMPIDOU FOUNDATION — $53,000 · OtherCENTRE POMPIDO…The Cedars of Marin — $50,000 · OtherThe Cedars of …THE KITCHEN — $40,000 · OtherTHE KITCHENNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE — $25,000 · OtherBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S THEATER — $25,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $45,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID …+14 more — $66,500 · Other+14 moreCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $65,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $50,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION — $50,000 · HealthENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $10,000 · Health+3 more — $7,000 · HealthGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $122,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · InternationalJerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $17,000 · InternationalWORLD CONNECT INC — $12,500 · InternationalINSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST INC — $5,000 · InternationalWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS — $55,300 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $16,000 · Environment+2 more — $2,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$3,043,309Community Improvement$1,000,000Other$679,500Health$182,000Education$143,000International$79,500Environment$73,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $765,309 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $390,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $230,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $200,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $125,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $122,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC — $112,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART FUND — $89,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM — $76,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $63,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS — $55,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetO MIAMI INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASITA MARIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTONS TAKE 2 DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…May and Samuel Rudin …Ag FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…David B Peterson Foun…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…John D and Catherine …The Ayco Charitable F…James S Peterson Foun…Ganek Family Foundati…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY23.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · David B Peterson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · James S Peterson Foundation · Ganek 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 Holly Peterson Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
  • O Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Holly Peterson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Holly Peterson 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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