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James S 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.

$463k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
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.

Education$652kCrime & Legal$345kPhilanthropy$295kHousing & Shelter$225kArts & Culture$181kCivil Rights$155kInternational$116kHuman Services$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOTERIDERS$50,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$50,000
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON$50,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$50,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$40,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC$35,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$25,000
KIPP FOUNDATION$25,000
CEDARS OF MARIN$20,000
FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION INC$20,000
RECIDIVIZ INC$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$15,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$10,000
DOE FUND INC$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $2k → 17%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $5k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $3k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $3k → 7%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $2k → 12%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15k → 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

NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 34 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$2.0M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SA
    SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +113%
  • GH
    GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +159%
  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • FD
    FAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $48k · revenue -71% · 27% of their budget
  • BG
    BANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +0%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -40%

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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Equitable Facilities Fund Inc

Eff is a nonprofit social impact fund that believes all children deserve a quality education. we empower high-performing public charter schools with equitable access to low-cost, long-term financing by innovatively combining…

Education
11
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
12
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith Crusades Ministries. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Addiction Recovery ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringHealth Access Advocacy and …
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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%17%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%11%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%0/51
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,709

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS…UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC — $175,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INCKIPP FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATIONHARLEM ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · Education+6 more — $31,000 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $170,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITI…VOTERIDERS — $155,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERSFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION — $40,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RIGHTS REST…+2 more — $11,000 · Civil RightsROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOU…Goodnation Foundation Inc — $35,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Fou…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Cedars of Marin — $130,000 · OtherThe Cedars of MarinTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $47,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYRECIDIVIZ INC — $35,000 · OtherRECIDIVIZ INCCORNELIA CONNELY CENTER FOR EDUCATION — $15,000 · OtherFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC — $95,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INCFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND — $48,000 · OtherFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEM…EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+15 more — $48,000 · Other+15 moreGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $180,000 · Arts & CultureGUILD HAL…+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOC…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS …ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesELEANOR W…ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATI…+2 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $75,000 · InternationalBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 · InternationalNEST INC — $10,500 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA — $5,000 · International
Education$631,000Civil Rights$376,000Philanthropy$290,000Other$448,500Arts & Culture$180,500Human Services$179,000International$135,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $180,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $155,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin — $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND — $48,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEST INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH CRUSADES MINISTRIES — $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE2ASIA — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWellness Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCOMMONORG INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBucknell University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TOWN SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET VERO BEACH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Boston Foundation IncThe Christine and Jai…Kazickas Family Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Indian River Communit…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Michael a Peterson Fo…The Thomas J Edelman …Holly Peterson Founda…Quail Valley Charitie…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY20.5× affinity9 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 · Boston Foundation Inc · The Christine and Jaime Yordan Foundation · Kazickas Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Michael a Peterson Foundation · The Thomas J Edelman Foundation · Holly Peterson Foundation · Quail Valley Charities Inc

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 James S 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ballet Vero Beach Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report 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 James S Peterson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James S 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 56 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.

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