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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.

$81k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
15
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$300
Largest grant, FY2023
$26,150
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$89k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther
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
FY202315$81k80%
FY20224$42k50%
FY20213$39k67%
FY20202$35kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$81kHealth$77kFood & Nutrition$26kArts & Culture$11kEducation$906Employment$500Human Services$308International$300Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$76,00030%
First Step Incorporated$55,0002n/a
Harvest House Inc$26,05517%
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe of Florida Inc$6,07530%
Art Center Sarasota Inc$4,37810%
The Academy at Glengary Inc$50010%
All Star Children's Foundation Inc$30810%
Children First Inc$30010%
Neuro Challenge Foundation Inc$25910%
Asolo Theatre Inc$25010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $76,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHarvest House Inc: $26,055 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetWestcoast Black Theatre Troupe of Florida Inc: $6,075 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArt Center Sarasota Inc: $4,378 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Academy at Glengary Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Star Children's Foundation Inc: $308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeuro Challenge Foundation Inc: $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsolo Theatre Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 9.

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.

The Appleby FoundationCharles & Margery Bar…Gulf Coast Community …The Community Foundat…The Appleby Charitabl…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Appleby FoundationFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness

How much does Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness give?
Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness reported 15 grants totaling $81,493 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (41%), Health (39%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression ($76k), First Step Incorporated ($55k), Harvest House Inc ($26k).
Does Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness 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 Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Appleby Foundation, Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness based?
Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness is based in FL.

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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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