· Private foundation
Marshall and Ellen Peters Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC | $6,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $6,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BRYAN | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITY MISSION | $5,000 |
| HEALTH FOR ALL CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
| METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| BOYS CLUBS OF BRAZOS COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| SCOTTYS HOUSE BRAZOS VALLEY CHILD ADVOCA | $4,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VFVoices for Children Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +77%
- TCTwin City Mission9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +35%
- SOS O S Ministries INC7× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- SOS O S MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -24%
- SHSCOTTY'S HOUSE BRAZOS VALLEY CHILDone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…
Child Advocacy
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
To provide financial support for the charitable programs and activities of Voices for Children, Inc. a nonprofit corporation 501(c)(3) that provides advocacy services to children in the child welfare system due to abuse and/or neglect.
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
The Brazoria County Dream Center BCDC provides avenues of healing to the souls of hurting humanity in Brazoria County, TX. We address both the physical and emotional needs of the community. We accomplish this by focusing on rebuilding…
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our communities in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in…
Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.
The mission of STARR of Hope, in collaboration with the community resources, is to provide prevention, intervention, and advocacy for women and children who experience domestic abuse or violence in Starr, Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys Club of Brazos County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Scottys House Brazos Valley Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds S O S MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY ↗
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 Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · Virginia & Christian Groneman Charitable · Orr James Donald Charitable Trust · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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