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Peter Solomon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$430kHuman Services$283kYouth Development$113kHousing & Shelter$95kPhilanthropy$80kEducation$40kReligion$18kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$40,000
HEREDITARY DISEASE FOUNDATION$30,000
OHSU FOUNDATION$30,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS$15,000
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN$15,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$15,000
OPEN DOOR OF MIDLAND$10,000
DUTTON FARM INC$7,500
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$7,500
MIDLAND COUNTY FOOD ASSISTANCE NETWORK$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Wounded Warriors Project: $40k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%Covenant House Michigan: $20k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $40k → 14%Covenant House Michigan: $20k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $40k → 14%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $20k → 8%Covenant House Michigan: $15k → 13%Wounded Warriors Project: $40k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%Wounded Warriors Project: $30k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $15k → 21%DUTTON FARM INC: $13k → 8%Dutton Farm: $10k → 8%DUTTON FARM INC: $8k → 8%Dutton Farm: $8k → 8%Dutton Farm: $10k → 21%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
0

Total granted

$1.1M
$0

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +34%
  • ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +64%
  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +24%

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your 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
    The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

    Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

    2
    Delta Dental Fund

    Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

    3
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

    The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

    Health
    4
    Shield of Faith Missions

    Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

    Religion
    5
    Michigan Humane Society

    To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

    Animals
    6
    Huron Area Center for Independence

    Mission: supporting people to participate as essential members of their community.

    Employment
    7
    The Futures Foundation

    The mission of the futures foundation is to be a voice for people with developmental disabilities by helping individuals get access to everyday fundamental needs, facilitating creation of ways to address systemic needs and being a catalyst…

    Health
    8
    Global Down Syndrome Foundation

    To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

    Health
    9
    Highmark Health

    As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

    Health
    10
    Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation

    To accelerate breakthroughs by providing today's best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative cancer research. the foundation's goals are to identify and fund the best and brightest early-career scientists in cancer research;…

    Health
    11
    Mymichigan Health Foundation

    The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

    Health
    12
    Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

    The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…

    Employment

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Midland County Food Assistance Network. 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

    8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    7/8
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    OHSU FOUNDATION — $120,000 · OtherOHSU FOUNDATIONOregon Health Science University — $70,000 · OtherOregon Health Science UniversityHereditary Disease Foundation — $70,000 · OtherHereditary Disease FoundationOPEN DOOR OF MIDLAND — $50,000 · OtherOPEN DOOR OF MIDLANDIndividual grant recipient — $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLeader Dogs for the Blind — $35,000 · OtherLeader Dogs for the BlindIndividual grant recipient — $27,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALSAC St Jude Childrens Resch Hosp — $17,500 · OtherMidland County Food Assistance Network — $17,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $95,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGANLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $60,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDDUTTON FARM — $47,500 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARMHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $160,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON'S DISEAS…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATI…
    Other$445,000Human Services$392,500Health$190,000Housing & Shelter$95,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $95,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUTTON FARM — $47,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMidland County Food Assistance Network — $17,500 over 2y, 1.5% 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.

    • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    • Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION
    • Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS
    • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    • Who funds DUTTON FARM
    • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    • Who funds Midland County Food Assistance Network

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

    Amazonsmile FoundationWA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Solomon Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
    • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Peter Solomon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Peter Solomon 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 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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