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Holly Peterson 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$1.4MHealth$182kInternational$112kEnvironment$73kHousing & Shelter$50kFood & Nutrition$30kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$27,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZEITZ MOCAA$280,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$200,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$175,000
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$150,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$50,000
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$50,000
GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION$50,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$50,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$50,000
GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC: $5k → 20%SNACK & FRIENDS INC: $5k → 17%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

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 26% of Holly Peterson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 54%.

Holly Peterson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 25 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
49

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+13%

Still filing today

96%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $665k 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
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    5× · 2020–2025 · $940k · revenue +305%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $568k · revenue +69%
  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    4× · 2021–2025 · $270k · revenue +122%

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
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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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
2
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
3
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
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
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
9
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
10
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
11
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 86 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
46/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $940,309 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $567,500 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZEITZ MOCAA: $295,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZEITZ MOCAATHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $295,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $290,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INCNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $270,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $235,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $200,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $150,500 · Arts & Culture+28 more: $772,500 · Arts & Culture+28 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERS…DUNELM USA: $125,000 · OtherDUNELM USATHE KITCHEN: $70,000 · OtherTHE KITCHENCENTRE POMPIDOU FOUNDATION: $53,000 · OtherCENTRE POMP…The Cedars of Marin: $50,000 · OtherThe Cedars …NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $25,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $45,000 · OtherCHARITIES A…+17 more: $86,500 · Other+17 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $50,000 · HealthENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $7,000 · HealthGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $162,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $10,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: $30,000 · InternationalBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $17,000 · InternationalWORLD CONNECT INC: $12,500 · InternationalLALELA PROJECT INC: $10,000 · 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: $2,500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$4,465,809Community Improvement$1,200,000Other$704,500Health$242,000Education$183,000International$99,500Environment$73,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $940,309 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $567,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $295,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $290,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $270,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $235,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $162,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $150,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC: $112,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100,000 over 2y, 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 budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBCT BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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

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 Holly Peterson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holly Peterson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 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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