Skip to content
Pedersen Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Pedersen Family 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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$316kCrime & Legal$310kFood & Nutrition$255kHealth$76kCivil Rights$61kYouth Development$33kHousing & Shelter$25kReligion$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE$40,000
MUTUAL GROUND$32,230
KENDALL CTY FOOD PANTRY$11,000
MARKLUND HOME$10,000
JACLYN STRONG FOUNDATION$7,000
PROJECT LIFT$5,988
LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME$3,000
ADOPT A CLASSROOM$750
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $579k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 21%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $47k → 10%LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 21%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $42k → 10%MUTUAL GROUND: $46k → 8%LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 21%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $40k → 10%MUTUAL GROUND: $37k → 8%LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 21%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20k → 10%MUTUAL GROUND: $32k → 8%LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 21%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20k → 10%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20k → 10%MUTUAL GROUND: $30k → 8%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20k → 10%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20k → 10%ASS'N FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $24k → 8%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE: $12k → 10%MUTUAL GROUND: $23k → 8%CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN: $10k → 10%CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN: $5k → 10%MUTUAL GROUND: $23k → 8%OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 21%OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $10k → 21%MUTUAL GORUND INC: $20k → 8%OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $5k → 21%MUTUAL GORUND INC: $15k → 8%TRI CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%ASS'N FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 8%TRI CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%TRI CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%TRI CITY FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+271%

Still filing today

68%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • JH
    JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +99%
  • MG
    MUTUAL GROUND INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +90%
  • CO
    CASA OF KENDALL COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $187k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOLLY'S HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -34%
  • BL
    BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • ML
    MIRACLE LEAGUE OF EL PASO
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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
Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc

Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.

Civil Rights
2
Casa of the Tennessee Heartland Inc

Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.

Civil Rights
3
Casa of Southern Oklahoma Inc

Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.

Civil Rights
4
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
5
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

—
6
Fifth Judical District Casa Program Inc

Assist abused children

Crime & Legal
7
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
8
Harcum House

Our mission is to reduce trauma and enhance healing by providing advocacy, education and outreach.

Human Services
9
Amarillo Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers

Civil Rights
10
The Children's Advocacy Center of Hamilton County Inc

The cac provides intervention services for children who are victims of severe abuse and advocacy services to their non offending caregivers. this includes forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy, and prevention education. the cac also…

Human Services
11
Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

—
12
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Center for the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Machado Farm Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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)
17/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $240,500 · Human ServicesJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INCMUTUAL GROUND INC: $225,230 · Human ServicesMUTUAL GROUND INCASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $33,900 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENTOPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $25,451 · Human ServicesLEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $23,000 · Human Services+2 more: $31,414 · Human Services+2 moreCASA OF KENDALL COUNTY: $186,568 · Civil RightsCASA OF KENDALL COUNTYBORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER: $48,500 · Civil RightsBORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTERCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $17,620 · Civil RightsCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INCCASA OF KANE COUNTY: $95,307 · OtherCASA OF KANE COUNTYMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherMOLLY'S HOUSE INCBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18,000 · OtherBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCHSAMARITAN HOUSE FOR BOYS INC: $16,750 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSE FOR BOYS …AID: $16,050 · OtherAIDPRIDE OF THE TREASURE COAST: $12,500 · OtherMIRACLE LEAGUE OF EL PASO: $12,500 · OtherKENDALL CTY FOOD PANTRY: $11,000 · OtherMARKLUND HOME: $10,000 · OtherELEVATE HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $25,090 · Other+6 morePROJECT LIFT INC: $12,966 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF EL PASO INC: $9,050 · Crime & LegalTHE INNER TRUTH PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF A VETERAN NFP: $2,200 · Public BenefitADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $750 · Education
Human Services$579,495Civil Rights$252,688Other$252,197Youth Development$12,966Crime & Legal$10,550Arts & Culture$10,000Public Benefit$2,200Education$750

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 budgetJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $240,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC: $225,230 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF KENDALL COUNTY: $186,568 over 5y, 14% of budgetBORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER: $48,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $33,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $25,451 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME: $23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $17,620 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE FOR BOYS INC: $16,750 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $16,614 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $12,966 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA OF EL PASO INC: $9,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY ENDEAVORS INC: $6,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNER TRUTH PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $750 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.

  • Who funds JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF KENDALL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
  • Who funds MOLLY'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE FOR BOYS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF EL PASO INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF A VETERAN NFP ↗
  • Who funds THE INNER TRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MACHADO FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗

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.

W and H Thomas Charit…The Community Foundat…Paso del Norte Commun…United Way of Martin …El Paso Community Fou…Community Foundation …United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
W and H Thomas Charitable TrustTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · United Way of Martin County Inc · El Paso Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Pedersen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pedersen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Jesus House of Hope Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pedersen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pedersen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Pedersen Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home