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Peck Carol a Private Foundation at a glance

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Peck Carol a Private Foundation

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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRES CHURCH HILTON HEAD ISLAND$19,650
HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION$8,000
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$5,500
WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY$5,100
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC$5,100
BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,000
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$2,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY I$500
HIGHEST IMAGE FOUNDATION$500
HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT$150
SPECIAL DAYS CAMPS$100
CHILDREN'S CENTER INC$100
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$100
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100 → 10%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 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
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
8
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
9
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
10
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
11
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
12
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is The Highest Image Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRES CHURCH HILTON HEAD ISLAND: $19,650 · OtherFIRST PRES CHURCH HILTON HEAD ISLANDTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $2,500 · OtherTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI+1 more: $100 · OtherColumbia College: $5,500 · EducationColumbia CollegeWILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY: $5,100 · EducationWILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITYSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $5,100 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE CLASSIC FOU…THE HIGHEST IMAGE FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE HIGHEST IMAGE FO…Community Foundation of the Lowcountry: $500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation…BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $150 · EnvironmentTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100 · Human Services
Other$22,250Education$15,700Philanthropy$9,000Arts & Culture$3,100Environment$150Human Services$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbia College: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HIGHEST IMAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 100% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peck Carol a Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peck Carol a Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 13 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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By state
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