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John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$426k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 23
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$4.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$426k20%
FY202322$423k27%
FY202222$454k45%
FY202119$385k21%
FY202023$373kn/a
100% 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$1.0MAnimals$358kCivil Rights$210kFood & Nutrition$172kEducation$120kEnvironment$69kCommunity Improvement$30kHousing & Shelter$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
CA
CO
MO
NC
SC
MS

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($365k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCultural Leadership Inc: $182,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCharleston Stage Company Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $152,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPrison Performing Arts: $150,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCharleston Jazz: $110,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLowcountry Food Bank Inc: $99,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $95,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetArts & Literature Laboratory Inc: $79,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetPublic Works Arts Center: $73,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCharleston Gaillard Management Corporation: $69,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife in Need Center Ltd: $69,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetBrevard Music Center Incorporated: $66,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $58,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Wilderness Land Trust: $45,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRipon College: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Opera Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBread & Roses Missouri: $22,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMadison Symphony Orchestra Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Health in Partnership Services (Chips): $16,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFeeding the Carolinas: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharleston Animal Society: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLowcountry Orphan Relief: $13,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMeds & Food for Kids: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNollie Jenkins Family Center Incorporated: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development CommissionMO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Endowment 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.

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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.

About John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc give?
John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $426,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Animals (17%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cultural Leadership Inc ($182k), Charleston Stage Company Inc ($180k), South Carolina Aquarium ($152k).
Does John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
Where is John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc based?
John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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