New York · Private foundation
Peter G Peterson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $68,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 58
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2B
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Peter G Peterson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 72 | $28M | 32% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $25M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $26M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $28M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $21M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget | $14,837,377 | 5 | 99% |
| Net Impact | $11,846,105 | 5 | 85% |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc | $11,200,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics | $9,490,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | $6,141,301 | 5 | 4% |
| Milbank Memorial Fund | $5,692,500 | 5 | 21% |
| New York City Partnership Foundation Inc | $5,403,000 | 2 | 35% |
| Civica Foundation | $5,000,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation | $4,631,975 | 5 | 5% |
| The Concord Coalition Corp | $3,450,000 | 5 | 84% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Peter G Peterson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 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: Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · The Commonwealth Fund · Gates Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · AARP
How this is measured
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About Peter G Peterson Foundation
- How much does Peter G Peterson Foundation give?
- Peter G Peterson Foundation reported 111 grants totaling $28,263,945 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 58 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Peter G Peterson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (31%), Social Science (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are Peter G Peterson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ($15M), Net Impact ($12M), Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc ($11M).
- Does Peter G Peterson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peter G Peterson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peter G Peterson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Laura and John Arnold Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Where is Peter G Peterson Foundation based?
- Peter G Peterson Foundation is based in NY.
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