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Margie and Robert E Petersen Foundation Co Theodore Calleton at a glance

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Margie and Robert E Petersen Foundation Co Theodore Calleton

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$615k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$95MHealth$58MPhilanthropy$15MYouth Development$11MCrime & Legal$8.4MEducation$3.4MHuman Services$2.8M
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$215,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER$215,000
THE EHE FOUNDATION$215,000
ALEX XYDIAS CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE A$185,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOURNEY HOUSE: $275k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $250k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE: $250k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $1.0M → 14%ST ANNES: $1.0M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MA
IA
OH
CA
NE
VA
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130M · 13 repeat orgs$50M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$130M
$50M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+16%

Still filing today

38%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $76M · revenue +39% · 25% of their budget
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9.0M · revenue +63%
  • SA
    St Anne's Family Services
    2× · 2018–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $25M
  • NF
    NRA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8.1M · revenue -23%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3.0M · revenue -70% · 67% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
3
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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4
Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator

Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…

Science & Tech
5
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
6
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education
7
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
8
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Polytechnic School

The mission of polytechnic school is to develop the unique intellect, talents, and character of each student in a community dedicated to academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others. the school envisions a community…

Education
12
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 34 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $76,491,600 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATIONCHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $25,000,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITALNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUND: $15,890,032 · OtherNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDSOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER: $13,357,601 · OtherSOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWERNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL: $3,423,825 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,610,667 · OtherPAINTED TURTLE OUTPOST PROGRAM: $2,600,000 · Other+11 more: $10,900,000 · Other+11 morePasadena Community Foundation: $13,500,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $310,000 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $9,000,000 · HealthTHE EHE FOUNDATION: $1,215,000 · HealthNRA FOUNDATION INC: $8,148,169 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $275,000 · Crime & LegalBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $3,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $3,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $585,000 · Youth DevelopmentSt Anne's Family Services: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $775,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $250,000 · EducationPasadena City College Foundation: $150,000 · Education+1 more: $14,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$76,491,600Other$73,782,125Philanthropy$13,810,000Health$10,215,000Crime & Legal$8,423,169Youth Development$6,585,000Human Services$2,775,000Education$1,414,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $76,491,600 over 4y, 25% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $13,500,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $9,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $8,148,169 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $3,000,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $3,000,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE EHE FOUNDATION: $1,215,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $775,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $585,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $275,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OAK PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
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 PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
  • Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
  • Who funds THE EHE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
  • Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OAK PARK ↗

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.

California Community …The Rose Hills Founda…Pasadena Community Fo…The Ralph M Parsons F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
California Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Margie and Robert E Petersen Foundation Co Theodore Calleton funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margie and Robert E Petersen Foundation Co Theodore Calleton. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Margie and Robert E Petersen Foundation Co Theodore Calleton 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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