Illinois · Private foundation
Peters Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Peters Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 9 | $48k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $54k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $48k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $44k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $39k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $31k | 74% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois Foundation | $83,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $26,500 | 6 | 0% |
| A Time to Heal Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| King-Bruwaert House | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Arizona Musicfest Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Starlight Children's Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago & North Western Historical Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jett Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peters Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Peters Family Foundation
- How much does Peters Family Foundation give?
- Peters Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $48,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Peters Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (14%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Peters Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Illinois Foundation ($83k), Chicago Zoological Society ($27k), A Time to Heal Inc ($20k).
- Does Peters Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peters Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peters Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, American Express Foundation.
- Where is Peters Family Foundation based?
- Peters Family Foundation is based in IL.
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