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Peers Network

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$228k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Peers Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$2k0%
FY20242$2k100%
FY20225$7k80%
FY20219$66k78%
FY20209$46k78%
FY20199$77k67%
FY20187$85kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$91kHealth$77kYouth Development$65kHuman Services$28kInternational$11kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$3kAnimals$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Peers Network by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Humble Design Inc$66,35021%
Reality Changers$50,97842%
Promises2kids Foundation$12,00020%
Miracle Babies$12,00021%
San Diego Blood Bank$10,00010%
Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc$10,00010%
San Diego Youth Services$10,00010%
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego$3,00020%
Entrepreneurs Organization$3,00010%
Build a Miracle$3,00010%
Sisu Academy$2,50030%
Emilio Nares Foundation$2,00010%
Corazon de Vida Foundation$2,00010%
Center for Community Solutions$1,00010%
Shelter to Soldier Inc$1,00010%
The Honor Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Greater Than Tech$1,0001n/a
Animal Pad$1,00010%
Noah Homes Inc$1,00010%
Casas de Luz$1,0001n/a
Just in Time for Foster Youth$1,00010%
Lucky Duck Foundation$1,00010%
San Diego Youth Foundation$1,00010%
Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc$1,00010%
Do Cancer$1,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,00010%
Rise Up Residential Inc$7831n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peers Network supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumble Design Inc: $66,350 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetReality Changers: $50,978 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPromises2kids Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiracle Babies: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSan Diego Blood Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of San Diego County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSan Diego Youth Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRady Children's Hospital San Diego: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEntrepreneurs Organization: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuild a Miracle: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSisu Academy: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCorazon de Vida Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Community Solutions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter to Soldier Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Honor Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Pad: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoah Homes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust in Time for Foster Youth: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLucky Duck Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Youth Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDo Cancer: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $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 24.

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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 San Diego FoundationCA29.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Country Friends · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · The Cushman 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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How do I get to Peers Network?

Find your warmest path to Peers Network 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.

About Peers Network

How much does Peers Network give?
Peers Network reported 1 grants totaling $1,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Peers Network fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (32%), Health (27%), Youth Development (23%).
Who are Peers Network's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Humble Design Inc ($66k), Reality Changers ($51k), Promises2kids Foundation ($12k).
Does Peers Network fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peers Network accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Peers Network?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Sempra Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
Where is Peers Network based?
Peers Network is based in CA.

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 33 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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