· Private foundation
John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $385k
- $250k+1 grant · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN | $425,000 |
| AFRICA 6000 | $205,440 |
| SIGHT CENTER NWPA | $100,000 |
| HARBORCREEK YOUTH SERVICES | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $45,500 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA | $20,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| ERIE CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| EMMAUS MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SAINT PAUL'S NEIGHBORHOOD FREE | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE INC | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $587k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +197% · 33% of their budget
- FHFAMILY HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
- HYHarborcreek Youth Services Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $755k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $70k
- A6AFRICA 6000 INTERNATIONALone grant, 2019 · $59k
- ECERIE CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide structured day care programs for pre-school children. the organization is dedicated to the nurturing, care and education of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children. the center owns…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
Early education and child care services
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
To engage in development of a self-help crisis intervention program to serve families mainly in erie county with abusive or potentially abusive family problems.
Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…
Our mission is to provide a continuum of quality services which promote the emotional, behavioral, educational, and physical development of children, adolescents and their families.
Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Harborcreek Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Erie County ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds St Martin Center ↗
- Who funds Erie Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds DR GERTRUDE A BARBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: M J Surgala Tr · Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc · Charles a Dailey Foundation · United Way of Erie County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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