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Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation

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.

$795k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.3MPhilanthropy$535kSocial Science$323kPublic Benefit$85kCommunity Improvement$75kHuman Services$70kCivil Rights$70kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $540k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS$105,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$100,000
SCHOOL CHOICE OHIO$100,000
ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS$100,000
DONORS TRUST$85,000
PIONEER INSTITUTE$50,000
ED CHOICE$25,000
FRIENDS OF CINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY$25,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$25,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$25,000
BUCKEYE INSTITUTE$25,000
ANCIENT PATHS CHRISTIAN & CLASSICAL ACADEMY$20,000
AFC GROWTH FUND$10,000
ATLAS FOUNDATION$10,000
CATHOLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AGUDATH ISRAEL OF OHIO: $25k → 17%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AGUDATH ISRAEL OF OHIO: $25k → 17%AGUDATH ISRAEL OF OHIO: $10k → 17%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%OHIO EXCELS: $50k → 15%OHIO EXCELS: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
CT
CA
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CO
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VA
MD
DC
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GA
FL

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 24 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$3.3M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+60%

Still filing today

79%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropySocial ScienceCivil RightsOther

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

  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $545k · revenue +163%
  • PI
    PIONEER INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +117%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $148k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +60%
  • LN
    Libertas Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +59%

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.

1
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
5
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
Liberty Classical Schools Educational Services Inc

To form, organize, operate, and support k through 12 charter schools that develop students in mind and character through a classical, content-rich cirriculum that emphasizes the principles of virtuous living, traditional learning, and…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
11
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc

We inspire college students to discover, embrace, and advance the principles that make america good, free, and prosperous.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Golden Bridge Academy. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsSenior Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,526

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $500,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGESCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC — $500,000 · EducationSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INCPIONEER INSTITUTE INC — $425,000 · EducationPIONEER INSTITUTE INCEdChoice Inc — $125,000 · EducationEdChoice Inc+13 more — $365,000 · Education+13 moreSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS — $545,000 · PhilanthropySETON EDUCATION PARTNERSDonors Trust Inc — $490,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $40,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS — $400,000 · OtherACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLSEDUCATION NEXT INSTITUTE INC — $225,000 · OtherEDUCATION NEXT INSTITUTE I…The Buckeye Institute — $145,000 · OtherThe Buckeye InstituteCATHOLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS — $85,000 · OtherCATHOLIC EDUCATION PARTNER…AFC GROWTH FUND — $75,000 · OtherAFC GROWTH FUNDATLAS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherATLAS FOUNDATIONGolden Bridge Academy — $40,000 · Other+4 more — $45,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $147,500 · Social ScienceFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $10,000 · Social ScienceOHIO EXCELS — $75,000 · Human ServicesAgudath Israel of Ohio Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network — $20,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $50,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $25,000 · Civil RightsCISE — $10,000 · Religion
Education$1,915,000Philanthropy$1,085,000Other$1,075,000Social Science$157,500Human Services$155,000Public Benefit$95,000Civil Rights$75,000Religion$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS — $545,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC — $500,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetDonors Trust Inc — $490,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC — $425,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS — $400,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetEDUCATION NEXT INSTITUTE INC — $225,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $147,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute — $145,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO EXCELS — $75,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAgudath Israel of Ohio Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas B Fordham Institute — $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGolden Bridge Academy — $40,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Cincinnati Classical Academy — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLibertas Network — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAK ROSE FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FAMILIES UNITED FOR EDUCATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCISE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCISE Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHINK FREELY MEDIA — $5,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Charles Koch Foundati…The Lynde and Harry B…Donors Trust IncState Policy NetworkBeth and Ravenel Curr…Adolph Coors Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Seminar Network I…John William Pope Fou…Walton Family Foundat…The Greater Cincinnat…Farmer Family Foundat…
Charles Koch FoundationVA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Koch Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · State Policy Network · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Farmer Family 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 Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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