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James S 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.

$419k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
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.

Education$652kCrime & Legal$345kPhilanthropy$295kHousing & Shelter$225kArts & Culture$181kCivil Rights$155kInternational$116kHuman Services$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$50,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$50,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$40,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC$35,000
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON$30,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
KIPP FOUNDATION$25,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$25,000
CEDARS OF MARIN$20,000
VOTERIDERS$20,000
FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION INC$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$15,000
RECIDIVIZ INC$15,000
DOE FUND INC$10,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $161k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 34 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$2.4M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +113%
  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +16%
  • GH
    GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +159%

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%
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.

1
Manhattanville University

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

Education
2
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
3
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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4
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
5
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
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
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
8
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
9
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
10
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 58 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $300,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS …UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $210,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INCKIPP FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATIONBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMY: $30,000 · Education+7 more: $36,000 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $210,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITI…VOTERIDERS: $175,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERSFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION: $55,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RIGHTS REST…+2 more: $11,000 · Civil RightsROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOU…Goodnation Foundation Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Fou…+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyThe Cedars of Marin: $150,000 · OtherThe Cedars of MarinTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $72,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYRECIDIVIZ INC: $50,000 · OtherRECIDIVIZ INCTHE DOE FUND INC: $105,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INCFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND: $48,000 · OtherFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEM…EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Other+18 more: $86,500 · Other+18 moreTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOC…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY…ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesELEANOR W…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS …ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $12,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATI…+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $210,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 · InternationalBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalNEST INC: $10,500 · International+1 more: $5,000 · International
Education$756,000Civil Rights$451,000Philanthropy$341,000Other$530,000Human Services$220,500Arts & Culture$210,500International$150,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $210,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $175,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin: $150,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $72,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND: $48,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH CRUSADES MINISTRIES: $11,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEST INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMONORG INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBucknell University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWN SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET VERO BEACH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 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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