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Jack L Peterson and Vanessa McCoy-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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Marks Lutheran School | $7,045 |
| Hawaii Public Radio | $3,000 |
| Giving Foundation for Women and Children Inc | $2,551 |
| The Smile Train | $2,113 |
| The Food Basket - Hawaii's Food Bank | $2,010 |
| Lakeview Dog Park Inc | $1,062 |
| Child and Family Service | $1,060 |
| Chicago Rescue Authority | $1,000 |
| Star Legacy Foundation | $675 |
| Kohala Kings Basketball Club | $300 |
| Project Hawaii | $265 |
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 (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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
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 +56% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +91%
- HPHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +31%
- HBHoward Brown Health Center2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +7%
Funded once
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +36%- PSPARKER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +82%
- HPHOUSTON PETSETgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +63%
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
The mission of legacy of life hawai'i is to save and enhance lives through recovering organs and tissue for transplant; encourage organ donation through community outreach and education; and honor and support organ donors and their families
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Lakeview Dog Park Inc Nfp. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 65 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 THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds Giving Foundation For Women & Children ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JIM SAUNDERS FUND ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WWWPILOTSNPAWSORG INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
- Who funds PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMYAL Inc ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PETSET ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW DOG PARK INC NFP ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
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: First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Jack L Peterson and Vanessa McCoy-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.
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.
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