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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLESTON JAZZ | $45,000 |
| CULTURAL LEADERSHIP | $44,000 |
| CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY | $40,000 |
| PRISON PERFORMING ARTS | $40,000 |
| PUBLIC WORKS ART CENTER | $40,000 |
| CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER | $35,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM | $28,000 |
| BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| ACTION ARTS COLLABORATIVE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS | $20,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $14,000 |
| FEEDING THE CAROLINAS | $14,000 |
| PENDLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT | $14,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $9,000 |
| WILDERNESS LAND TRUST | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your 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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- CLCULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $182k · revenue +88%
- CSCHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +41%
- SCSouth Carolina Aquarium5× · 2020–2024 · $152k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- MOMADISON OPERA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Centre stage is a non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts venue and theatre organization that exists to captivate audiences with diverse programming, cultivate local artistry, and inspire community collaboration.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
To enrich the lives of everyone we reach.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
The greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Gaillard Management Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 CULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds PRISON PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jazz ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis ArtWorks ↗
- Who funds ARTS & LITERATURE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC WORKS ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds RIPON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP SERVICES (CHIPS) ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee 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: 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
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 John & Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation Inc 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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