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Peak Benevolent Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2020
22
Grants FY2020
22
Organizations funded FY2020
32%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$19,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
9
Total assets, FY2020
$105k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 32% of the organizations Peak Benevolent Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
ReligionArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY202022$97k32%
FY201917$51k35%
FY201823$138k52%
FY201715$49kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$117kEducation$62kCivil Rights$43kHuman Services$36kArts & Culture$25kMembership Benefit$20kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KS
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Freedom Unbridled Inc$38,0002n/a
Shalom Ministries Inc$29,50018%
Wanda Memorial Cemetery Association Inc$20,0003n/a
Ripon College$17,50040%
Beloit Health System Foundation Inc$13,00015%
City Lit Theatre Company$10,0001n/a
International House of Prayer$9,0001n/a
Focus on the Family$8,0004n/a
Crown Financial Ministries Inc$8,00040%
Family Research Council$8,00040%
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All grantees of Peak Benevolent Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Freedom Unbridled Inc$38,0002n/a
Shalom Ministries Inc$29,50018%
Wanda Memorial Cemetery Association Inc$20,0003n/a
Ripon College$17,50040%
Beloit Health System Foundation Inc$13,00015%
City Lit Theatre Company$10,0001n/a
International House of Prayer$9,0001n/a
Focus on the Family$8,0004n/a
Crown Financial Ministries Inc$8,00040%
Family Research Council$8,00040%
Salvation Army$7,0004n/a
Caritas Inc$5,66740%
Community Hope Center Inc$5,50030%
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education$5,00011%
Legacy Ministries Inc$4,0001n/a
Freedom Fire Ministries Inc$2,0001n/a
Perception Funding Inc$1,50010%
The Restore Network$1,00010%
Chicago Shakespeare Theater$1,00010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peak Benevolent Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShalom Ministries Inc: $29,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetRipon College: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeloit Health System Foundation Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCrown Financial Ministries Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Research Council: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaritas Inc: $5,667 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Hope Center Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMidwest Center for Holocaust Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPerception Funding Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Restore Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Shakespeare Theater: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Peak Benevolent Foundation

How much does Peak Benevolent Foundation give?
Peak Benevolent Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $97,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Peak Benevolent Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Education (18%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Peak Benevolent Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Freedom Unbridled Inc ($38k), Shalom Ministries Inc ($30k), Wanda Memorial Cemetery Association Inc ($20k).
Does Peak Benevolent Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peak Benevolent Foundation 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 Peak Benevolent Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Servant Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Peak Benevolent Foundation based?
Peak Benevolent Foundation is based in MO.

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 40 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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