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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
9
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Religion$117kEducation$62kCivil Rights$43kHuman Services$36kArts & Culture$25kMembership Benefit$20kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2020 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k19 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Freedom Covenant Church$19,000
Freedom Unbridled Inc$16,000
HARLAXTON COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY$15,000
RIPON COLLEGE$6,000
WANDA MEMORIAL CEMETERY ASSOC$5,000
International House of Prayer KC$5,000
WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,000
Shalom Ministries Inc$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Freedom Fire Urban Ministries$2,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$2,000
CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES$2,000
OPTIONS NOW WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%CARITAS: $2k → 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%CARITAS: $2k → 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%CARITAS: $1k → 10%CARITAS: $1k → 10%The Restore Network: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$206k · 18 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$206k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+38%

Still filing today

28%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
ReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • RC
    RIPON COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +58%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +63%
  • CF
    CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SM
    SHALOM MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • BH
    BELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +897%
  • CL
    CITY LIT THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Center for Christianity and Public Life

To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.

Religion
4
Christian Living Communities

Christian living communities enriches the quality and dignity of life for older adults through services and care that reflect christian love, respect, and compassion toward each individual.

Housing & Shelter
5
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
6
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
7
Christian Resources International

Free worldwide distribution of christian literature

Religion
8
Faith for Culture

To explore and promote the faith journeys and insights of christian believers in many spheres of culture.

Human Services
9
Chicago Christian Counseling Center

To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective

Health
10
Cts America Inc

To deliver the gospel of the lord jesus christ by broadcasting television

Religion
11
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
12
C4I Christians for Israel

To present a biblical perspective of god's plans and purpose for israel and the church

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Hope Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Lit Theatre Company. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FREEDOM UNBRIDLED INC — $38,000 · OtherFREEDOM UNBRIDLED INCWANDA MEMORIAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · OtherWANDA MEMORIAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCHARLAXTON COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherHARLAXTON COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITYFreedom Covenant Church — $19,000 · OtherFreedom Covenant ChurchHONORS COLLEGE — $17,000 · OtherHONORS COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER — $9,000 · OtherOPTIONS NOW WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $8,667 · OtherWESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $8,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — $8,000 · Other+17 more — $60,000 · Other+17 moreSHALOM MINISTRIES INC — $29,500 · ReligionSHALOM MINIST…CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 · ReligionCROWN FINANCI…PERCEPTION FUNDING INC — $1,500 · ReligionRIPON COLLEGE — $17,500 · EducationFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $8,000 · Human ServicesCARITAS INC — $5,667 · Human ServicesTHE RESTORE NETWORK — $1,000 · Human ServicesBELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · HealthCITY LIT THEATRE COMPANY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC — $5,500 · Community ImprovementMIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$229,667Religion$39,000Education$17,500Human Services$14,667Health$13,000Arts & Culture$11,000Community Improvement$5,500Civil Rights$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORE NETWORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SHALOM MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds RIPON COLLEGE
  • Who funds BELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CITY LIT THEATRE COMPANY
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CARITAS INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC
  • Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION
  • Who funds PERCEPTION FUNDING INC
  • Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER
  • Who funds THE RESTORE NETWORK

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Peak Benevolent Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    2report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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