· Private foundation
Peter G Peterson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $834k
- $50k–250k43 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+22 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELECTION TRUST INITIATIVE LLC | $5,000,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET | $3,631,455 |
| PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS | $3,000,000 |
| NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC | $2,250,000 |
| NET IMPACT | $1,585,422 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC | $820,000 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC | $779,000 |
| URBAN INSTITUTE | $640,000 |
| PURCHASER BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH | $515,000 |
| CONCORD COALITION CORP | $450,000 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC | $450,000 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $450,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH | $450,000 |
| MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND | $417,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY | $398,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET5× · 2021–2025 · $15M · revenue +84% · 99% of their budget
- NTNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11M · revenue +36%
- PGPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS4× · 2021–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +63%
Funded once
- CFCIVICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -75%
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +69%- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New Yorkgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
How this is measured
95 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. 95 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET ↗
- Who funds NET IMPACT ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds New York City Partnership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONCORD COALITION CORP ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds CATALYST FOR PAYMENT REFORM ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition To Transform Advanced Car ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds PURCHASER BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Conference Board Inc ↗
- Who funds Women's Institute for Science Equity Race ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peter G Peterson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter G Peterson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
- Digital Medicine Society Inc: 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc: 7% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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