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Peter Guenther Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Health$64kAnimals$45kEnvironment$12kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$4kInternational$3k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE$25,000
PALM BEACH ZOO AND CONSERVATION SOCIETY$25,000
APLASTI ANEMIA MDS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN HUMANE$20,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS$5,000
HOW HEARING THE OVARIAN WHISPER$3,750
LIBERTY UKRAINE FOUNDATION$3,000
KIWANIS FOUNDATION FOR BIKES FOR FOSTER KIDS$3,000
THE FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$1,000
ORDER OF ST JOHN'S HOSPITALLIER FOR THE VITA NOVA$500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ORDER OF ST JOHN'S HOSPITALLIER FOR THE VITA NOVA: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
2
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc

Phipps' mission is to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research, and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.

Environment
3
Clean Miami Beach Inc

Clean miami beach is dedicated to keeping our community and natural habitats free of garbage and harmful pollutants with a focus on single-use plastics. the goal is to teach residents, and educate the youth of today, how everyone can…

Environment
4
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc

Frost science inspires and connects people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy science and technology, and to better understand ourselves and our world.

Arts & Culture
5
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
6
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

7
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
8
Norton Museum of Art Inc

The norton museum of art welcomes visitors to experience the transformative power of art through intimate and innovative encounters with distinctive programs and wide-ranging collections.

Arts & Culture
9
National Park Foundation

As the official philanthropic partner of the national park service, the national park foundation generates private support and builds strategic partnerships to protect and enhance america's national parks for present and future generations.

10
Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc

The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…

Animals
11
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
12
The Friends of Sandoway House Nature Center Inc

The center offers a glimpse into the marine & freshwater ecosystems of the area with interactive exhibits for all ages to explore. programs & events are designed to inspire guests to care for wildlife & the natural world.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quantum House Inc. 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

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

APLASTI ANEMIA MDS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherAPLASTI ANEMIA MDS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONPALM BEACH ZOO AND CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $25,000 · OtherPALM BEACH ZOO AND CONSERVATION SOCIETYAMERICAN HUMANE — $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN HUMANEHOW HEARING THE OVARIAN WHISPER — $3,750 · OtherKIWANIS FOUNDATION FOR BIKES FOR FOSTER KIDS — $3,000 · OtherCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC — $25,000 · EducationCANCER ALLIANCE OF HE…FRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 · HealthPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY UKRAINE FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · AnimalsVita Nova Inc — $500 · Human Services
Other$76,750Education$25,000Environment$11,000Health$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$3,000Animals$1,000Human Services$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY UKRAINE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVita Nova Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Peter Guenther Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 42%
  • Vita Nova Inc42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Peter Guenther Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Peter Guenther Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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