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Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
42%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 25
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$39k23%
FY202424$90k42%
FY202320$67k15%
FY202223$70k26%
FY202122$46k9%
FY202025$57kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$164kEducation$51kHuman Services$34kCivil Rights$30kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$23kInternational$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $35,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRingling College of Art and Design Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $20,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $16,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEmbracing Our Differences Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren First Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPinewoods Camp Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKey Chorale Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNeuro Challenge Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCountry Dance and Song Society Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPines of Sarasota Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLibrary Foundation for Sarasota County Inc: $6,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAll Star Children's Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSenior Friendship Centers Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPines of Sarasota Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Circus Arts Conservatory Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew College Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bicycling Education Association: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Guardian Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 27.

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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 Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL36.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Aaron Family Foundation · Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc

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 Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc

How much does Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc give?
Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc reported 13 grants totaling $38,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (13%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sarasota Opera Association Inc ($36k), Ringling College of Art and Design Inc ($22k), The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ($21k).
Does Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc 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 Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc.
Where is Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc based?
Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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