· Private foundation
Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEEN COURT | $26,150 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $26,055 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| THE OUT OF DOOR ACADEMY | $906 |
| WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE | $400 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $311 |
| ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $308 |
| CHILDEREN FIRST | $300 |
| NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNATION | $259 |
| ASOLO THEATRE | $250 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125 |
| PROJECT PRIDE | $103 |
| HEALTHY START COALITION | $75 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $51 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION3× · 2020–2023 · $76k · revenue +35%
- FSFIRST STEP INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +60%
WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ACART CENTER SARASOTA INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +13%
THE ACADEMY AT GLENGARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +46%
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 florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
The organization was formed in 1996 to provide a variety of effective treatment services to individuals and families who are affected by mental health, substance abuse disorders and co-occuring disorders
Forty carrots family center's mission is to nurture healthy child and family development through research-based, relationship-centered education and mental health services.
It is the mission of psycho-social rehabilitation center, inc. d/b/a fellowship house ("fellowship house") to assist adults with severe and persistent psychiatric disabilities, including individuals that also have co-occurring substance…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
None
Henderson behavioral health, inc. and subsidiaries (the organization) provides behavioral health care throughout broward and palm beach counties, the treasure coast and okeechobee. the organization charges fees based upon its patients'…
The mission of ardc is to be central florida's community resource for families and non-professional care givers affected by alzheimer's disease (ad) and related dementias through education, advocacy, research opportunities and…
Nextstep orlando enables paralyzed individuals with spinal cord injuries and neurological conditions through research-driven activity-based therapy that advances recovery, independence for a healthier, more fulfilling life.
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All Star Children's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Step Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY AT GLENGARY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE 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: The Appleby Foundation · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Appleby Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
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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