How much did JOHN M & GERTRUDE E PETERSEN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of JOHN M & GERTRUDE E PETERSEN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

children

2019

children

2020

scholarship

2021

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2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k6 grants · $137k
$50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$250k+1 grant · $750k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants

FAMILY HOUSE$750,000
MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN$125,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF NWPA$100,000
COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$45,500
BENEDICTINE SISTERS OF ERIE$40,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA$21,600
FAMILY HOUSE$10,000
ERIE CITY MISSION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE$5,000
EMMAUS MINISTRIES INC$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE INC$5,000
SAINT PAUL'S NEIGHBORHOOD FREE$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.0M · 30 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.0M

$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+22%

Still filing today

43%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

FH
FAMILY HOUSE INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +32%
MC
MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN
8× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +185% · 33% of their budget
HY
HARBORCREEK YOUTH SERVICES
6× · 2017–2023 · $675k · revenue +9%

Funded once

AW
ASBURY WOODS
one grant, 2023 · $70k
A6
AFRICA 6000 INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2019 · $59k
EC
ERIE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

To provide financial support to upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.

Health

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…

Youth Development

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

Improve quality of life by enhancing pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports

Humane Society of Erie County

To educate the residents of erie county on proper care, housing and support of animals; to prevent animal cruelty in erie county, and to provide temporary shelter for homeless pets.

Animals

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

The college's mission is to educate for excellence in healthcare practice, leadership, and the continuous acquisition of knowledge.

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Greater Erie Economic Development

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Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations

Health

Erie Marsh Conservation Foundation

Environment

Erie Art Museum

Museum promotes visual arts and builds community through exhibitions, classes, and performances.

Arts & Culture

Shadyside Hospital of Pittsburgh

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Erie County Community Foundation

The mission of the eccf is to provide for the enrichment of the quality of life in the erie county and sandusky, ohio community by developing a permanent endowment to assess and respond to changing community needs and by serving as a…

Philanthropy

Children's Home of Bradford Pa

Journey health system provides organizational management, advocacy, financial and administrative shelter to its family of affiliated health care providers so that they may focus on what (continued on schedule o)

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Erie County and the most unlike its peers is Erie Zoological Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

13/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,868,686Health$1,075,000Education$667,000Human Services$482,467Philanthropy$80,000Youth Development$31,000Animals$10,000

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.

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.

M J Surgala TrPA26.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M J Surgala Tr · Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Merwin Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc · Charles a Dailey Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Ge 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 organisation JOHN M & GERTRUDE E PETERSEN 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.

2024

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 251695659 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to John M & Gertrude E Petersen?

Find your warmest path to John M & Gertrude E Petersen through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOHN M & GERTRUDE E PETERSEN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John M & Gertrude E Petersen?

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JOHN M & GERTRUDE E PETERSEN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John M & Gertrude E Petersen?

More from the funding graph