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Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Jewish Committee DBA AJC$5,000
Embracing Our Differences Inc$4,000
Pinewoods Camp Inc$3,000
Wm J Brennan Center For Justice Inc$3,000
Country Dance and Song Society$3,000
Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc$3,000
Library Fdn of Sarasota County Inc$2,500
Sarasota Opera Association Inc$2,500
Ringling Museum of Art Fdn Inc$2,500
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc$2,500
Sarasota Art Museum$2,500
Ringling College of Art and Design$2,500
Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Hsg Cncl$2,500
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 (FY20–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST: $5k → 9%PINES OF SARASOTA: $2k → 9%PINES OF SARASOTA: $1k → 9%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 30 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
16

Total granted

$316k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+6%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • Sarasota Opera Association Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +98%
  • RC
    RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • FW
    Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • AS
    ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +150%
  • NC
    NEW COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
Sarasota Concert Association Inc

To present internationally renowed orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo artists to the greater sarasota community, and to showcase outstanding regional musicians in a series of free public concerts.

Arts & Culture
2
Sarasota Academy of the Arts Inc

The mission of sarasota academy of the arts (saa) is to provide a motivating, challenging, and creative learning climate with a safe, caring, family atmosphere. saa will provide students interested in visual and performing arts with…

Education
3
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc

The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.

Arts & Culture
4
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

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5
Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee Inc

The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.

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6
Art Center Sarasota Inc

To provide sarasota with opportunities for creative expression and art appreciation through art education, exhibitions and cultural programs.

Arts & Culture
7
Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida

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8
Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County

To create and foster economic opportunities in collaboration with community and regional partners to diversify, grow and sustain our economy while enhancing our unique, natural and cultural environment.

Community Improvement
9
The Classical Academy of Sarasota

Developing the academic potential of each student through a rigorous content-rich, classical liberal arts education while building in them a virtuous character.

Education
10
Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Housing Council Inc

Aviva is a not-for-profit organization offering a full continuum of retirement rental options - from independent living to advanced care services that provide security, wellness, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment.

Human Services
11
Jewish Housing Council Foundation Inc

The organization provides financial support to sarasota-manatee jewish housing council, inc., a not-for-profit provider of independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and other services for elderly individuals from sarasota and…

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12
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pines of Sarasota Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Bicycling Education Association. 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

28 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. 28 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $20,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRASARASOTA ART MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherSARASOTA ART MUSEUMASOLO REPERTORY THEATER: $10,000 · OtherASOLO REPERTORY THEATERRINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · OtherRINGLING MUSEUM OF ARTAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE DBA AJC: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE DBA AJCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $8,750 · OtherKEY CHORALE INC: $8,000 · OtherLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $7,250 · OtherLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $6,250 · OtherCIRCUS ARTS OF SARASOTA CONSERVANCY: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $6,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $11,250 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEPINEWOODS CAMP INC: $9,000 · Other+16 more: $42,250 · Other+16 moreSarasota Opera Association Inc: $35,500 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera Associatio…Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $16,250 · Arts & CultureHermitage Artist Retreat …EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES…Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida West Coast Sympho…COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SO…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $22,000 · EducationRINGLING COLLE…Children First Inc: $13,500 · EducationChildren First…LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $6,250 · EducationLIBRARY FOUNDA…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $3,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BREN…THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $3,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ART…New College Foundation Inc: $2,000 · EducationTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $20,700 · EnvironmentBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesPINES OF SARASOTA INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesNEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Health
Other$169,750Arts & Culture$87,250Education$49,750Philanthropy$30,000Environment$21,700Human Services$18,000Health$17,000

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 budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $35,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 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
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 Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
  • Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children First Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds PINEWOODS CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds KEY CHORALE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗

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 Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Charles & Margery Bar…Manatee Community Fou…William G and Marie S…Roberta Leventhal Sud…The Louis and Gloria …The Aaron Family Foun…Woman's Exchange Inc …The Arthur S Karp Fam…The Cowles Charitable…Publix Super Markets …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: 67% of income from government
  • Pines of Sarasota Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

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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