Iowa · Public charity
PEO Foundation
To support the educational and charitable funds of the P.E.O. Sisterhood through contributions and provide scholarships for qualified women seeking to further their education.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,101,768
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $168M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations PEO Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $4.6M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $4.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $4.1M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $4.8M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEO Program for Continuing Education | $5,584,428 | 5 | 34% |
| Cottey College | $4,167,852 | 5 | 6% |
| PEO STAR Scholarship | $3,504,624 | 5 | 28% |
| PEO Scholar Awards | $3,307,227 | 5 | 30% |
| PEO International Peace Scholarship | $2,128,560 | 5 | 22% |
| PEO Educational Loan Fund | $1,956,949 | 5 | 15% |
| PEO Sisterhood IL State Chapter | $619,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Oregon State Chapter | $545,496 | 5 | 28% |
| Texas Star Oaks Fund Inc | $304,698 | 5 | 43% |
| Arizona Peo Project Fund Association | $190,903 | 5 | 26% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEO Program for Continuing Education | $5,584,428 | 5 | 34% |
| Cottey College | $4,167,852 | 5 | 6% |
| PEO STAR Scholarship | $3,504,624 | 5 | 28% |
| PEO Scholar Awards | $3,307,227 | 5 | 30% |
| PEO International Peace Scholarship | $2,128,560 | 5 | 22% |
| PEO Educational Loan Fund | $1,956,949 | 5 | 15% |
| PEO Sisterhood IL State Chapter | $619,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Oregon State Chapter | $545,496 | 5 | 28% |
| Texas Star Oaks Fund Inc | $304,698 | 5 | 43% |
| Arizona Peo Project Fund Association | $190,903 | 5 | 26% |
| Iowa Peo Project Fund Inc | $67,756 | 5 | 9% |
| Iowa Wesleyan University | $54,699 | 3 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Peo Sisterhood Help Fund Inc | $31,078 | 1 | 33% |
| Illinois Peo Home Fund Inc | $22,443 | 4 | 7% |
| Adams State University | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt Pleasant Community School Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
PEO Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: PEO Sisterhood TX State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood IA State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood CA State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood FL State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood AR State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood VA State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood CO State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood MT State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood NV State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood SD State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood TN State Chapter · PEO Sisterhood KY State Chapter
How this is measured
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About PEO Foundation
- How much does PEO Foundation give?
- PEO Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $4,626,127, out of $8,270,311 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does PEO Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Human Services (3%), Membership Benefit (2%).
- Who are PEO Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: PEO Program for Continuing Education ($5.6M), Cottey College ($4.2M), PEO STAR Scholarship ($3.5M).
- Does PEO Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as PEO Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include PEO Sisterhood TX State Chapter, PEO Sisterhood IA State Chapter, PEO Sisterhood CA State Chapter.
- Where is PEO Foundation based?
- PEO Foundation is based in IA.
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