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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$167kHealth$45kAnimals$27kArts & Culture$19kHuman Services$18kRecreation & Sports$3kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$11,000
TROON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
ARIZONA MUSICFEST$5,000
KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE$5,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$1,000
VIOLET FOUNDATION$500
THE BAIRD SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO ST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC CHURCH$500
THE CENTER$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE: $7k → 7%KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE: $5k → 7%KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE: $2k → 7%KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$286k · 17 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
43

Total granted

$286k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+37%

Still filing today

65%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +127%
  • Chicago Zoological Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +43%
  • AT
    A TIME TO HEAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • ES
    EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • SC
    STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    AZ CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
3
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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4
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
8
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

33 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. 33 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
29/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TROON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $77,500 · OtherTROON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTAYLOR TRUDEAU CYCLE FOR LIFE: $10,000 · OtherTAYLOR TRUDEAU CYCLE FOR LIFECDGA FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Other+36 more: $21,950 · Other+36 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $83,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundat…+4 more: $3,350 · EducationChicago Zoological Society: $26,500 · AnimalsChicago Z…+2 more: $500 · AnimalsA TIME TO HEAL INC: $20,000 · HealthJETT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+8 more: $2,900 · HealthKING-BRUWAERT HOUSE: $16,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureChicago & North Western Historical Society Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $2,250 · Public Benefit
Other$151,450Education$86,350Animals$27,000Health$24,900Human Services$16,250Arts & Culture$16,000Public Benefit$2,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $83,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA TIME TO HEAL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKING-BRUWAERT HOUSE: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago & North Western Historical Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST: $950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds A TIME TO HEAL INC ↗
  • Who funds KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chicago & North Western Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center for Independence through Conductive Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds OAK PARK CONCERT CHORALE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
The Chicago Community TrustIL14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peters Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peters Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home