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PEO Foundation

To support the educational and charitable funds of the P.E.O.

$8.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.1M
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$21MHuman Services$741kMembership Benefit$428kPhilanthropy$372kEmployment$69kHousing & Shelter$22k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $4,626,127, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,270,311 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,644,184 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $341k
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.2M
$140,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$168M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEO Prog for Continuing Ed$1,101,768
PEO STAR Scholarship$843,759
Cottey College$748,076
PEO Scholar Awards$672,051
PEO Intl Peace Scholarship$500,288
PEO Educational Loan Fund$337,949
Lulu Corkhill Williams Fund$140,000
Oregon State Chapter Charit Trust$136,448
Texas Star Oaks Fund$64,824
Arizona PEO Projects Fund Assoc$46,318
Iowa PEO Projects Fund Inc$16,826
Mt Pleasant Community School Founda$12,000
Illinois PEO Home Fund$5,820
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 (FY22–22, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Wisconsin HELP Fund: $31k → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
OR
IA
CO
MO
AZ
TX
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 13 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$22M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-14%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalMembership BenefitHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • PP
    PEO Program for Continuing Education
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +24% · 34% of their budget
  • PS
    PEO STAR Scholarship
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +44% · 28% of their budget
  • PS
    PEO Scholar Awards
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +27% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • WP
    WISCONSIN PEO SISTERHOOD HELP FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -14% · 33% of their budget
  • AS
    ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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
Peo Sisterhood Ia State Chapter

P.E.O. is a philanthropic organization where women celebrate the advancement of women; educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate each other to achieve their highest…

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2
Peo Sisterhood in State Chapter

P.E.O. is a philanthropic organization where women celebrate the advancement of women, educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate each other to achieve their highest…

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3
International Chapter Peo Sisterhood

P.E.O. is a philanthropic organization where women celebrate the advancement of women; educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate each other to achieve their highest…

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4
Peo Sisterhood Co State Chapter

P.E.O. is a philanthropic organization where women celebrate the advancement of women; educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate each other to achieve their highest…

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5
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.

Education
6
Endowment Fund of Cottey College

To support the educational activities of Cottey College, a liberal arts and sciences college located in Nevada, Missouri, primarily by granting to the college the income earned in the fund.

Education
7
Oklahoma Peo Projects Fund Inc

To provide educational grants and scholarships.

Education
8
Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
9
Peo Sisterhood Chapter Af-Co

Educational and Charitable

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10
Psea Scholarship Trust
Education
11
Alpha Psi of Chi Psi Edu Trust
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12
Building Fund Cottey College

The building fund is used exclusively for purposes of construction, repairs and maintenance of Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri, 64772, a qualified charity.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peo Educational Loan Fund; the most unlike its peers is Iowa Wesleyan University. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COTTEY COLLEGE: $4,167,852 · EducationCOTTEY COLLEGEPEO STAR Scholarship: $3,504,624 · EducationPEO STAR ScholarshipPEO Scholar Awards: $3,307,227 · EducationPEO Scholar AwardsPEO Educational Loan Fund: $1,956,949 · EducationPEO Educational Loan FundPEO Program for Continuing Education: $5,584,428 · OtherPEO Program for Continuing Educa…PEO Sisterhood IL State Chapter: $619,000 · OtherPEO Sisterhood IL State Chapter+4 more: $280,045 · OtherPEO International Peace Scholarship: $2,128,560 · InternationalPEO Intern…OREGON STATE CHAPTER: $545,496 · Membership BenefitTEXAS STAR OAKS FUND INC: $304,698 · PhilanthropyIOWA PEO PROJECT FUND INC: $67,756 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN PEO SISTERHOOD HELP FUND INC: $31,078 · Human ServicesMt Pleasant Community School Foundation: $12,000 · Religion
Education$12,936,652Other$6,483,473International$2,128,560Membership Benefit$545,496Philanthropy$372,454Human Services$31,078Religion$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEO Program for Continuing Education: $5,584,428 over 5y, 34% of budgetCOTTEY COLLEGE: $4,167,852 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetPEO STAR Scholarship: $3,504,624 over 5y, 28% of budgetPEO Scholar Awards: $3,307,227 over 5y, 30% of budgetPEO International Peace Scholarship: $2,128,560 over 5y, 22% of budgetPEO Educational Loan Fund: $1,956,949 over 5y, 15% of budgetPEO Sisterhood IL State Chapter: $619,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetOREGON STATE CHAPTER: $545,496 over 5y, 28% of budgetTEXAS STAR OAKS FUND INC: $304,698 over 5y, 43% of budgetARIZONA PEO PROJECT FUND ASSOCIATION: $190,903 over 5y, 26% of budgetIOWA PEO PROJECT FUND INC: $67,756 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetIowa Wesleyan University: $54,699 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN PEO SISTERHOOD HELP FUND INC: $31,078 over 1y, 33% of budgetILLINOIS PEO HOME FUND INC: $22,443 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetMt Pleasant Community School Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

PEO Sisterhood TX Sta…PEO Sisterhood IA Sta…PEO Sisterhood CA Sta…PEO Sisterhood FL Sta…PEO Sisterhood AR Sta…PEO Sisterhood VA Sta…PEO Sisterhood CO Sta…PEO Sisterhood MT Sta…PEO Sisterhood NV Sta…PEO Sisterhood SD Sta…PEO Sisterhood TN Sta…PEO Sisterhood KY Sta…
PEO Sisterhood TX State ChapterIA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 PEO Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from PEO Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–26
    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 PEO Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to PEO 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 16 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 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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