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Peters Family 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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$204kEducation$152kEnvironment$150kFood & Nutrition$140kArts & Culture$95kHuman Services$41kCrime & Legal$40kHealth$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$4,499
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MSU Foundation$73,000
World Food Program$15,000
Doctors without Boarders$8,500
Thelma Sadoff Center For the Arts$7,500
Center for Biological Diversity$7,500
Partners in Health$6,000
Summit County Clubhouse$5,000
Council on Foundations$4,499
Bard Prison Initiative$3,000
Equal Justice Initiative$3,000
Wisconsin Watch$3,000
Food Bank for NYC$3,000
Camp Mishawaka$3,000
Sahan Journal$2,500
United Nations Relief and Works Agency$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%World Food Program: $28k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $16k → 14%World Food Program: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $9k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $9k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $7k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $3k → 14%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

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
AZ
DC
MS
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$832k · 35 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
20

Total granted

$832k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +585%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +77%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • WC
    WISCONSIN CTR FOR INVEST JOURNALISM
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +81%
  • VI
    VEAP Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -15%
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 Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
3
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alliance for Climate Protection; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MSU Foundation: $103,000 · OtherMSU FoundationWISC CTR FOR INVST JOURNALISM: $39,400 · OtherWISC CTR FOR INVST JOURNALISMMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,900 · OtherRAINFOREST FOUNDATION USA: $15,500 · OtherPartners in Health: $15,000 · OtherUnited Nations Relief and Works Agency: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $30,500 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONWCIJ INC: $18,000 · Other+24 more: $148,899 · Other+24 moreCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $44,500 · InternationalCENTER FOR HUMANITA…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $37,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONT…DIRECT RELIEF: $35,900 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $24,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCER…International Rescue Committee INC: $9,000 · InternationalInternational Rescu…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $5,500 · International+1 more: $3,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $87,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…+1 more: $2,400 · Human ServicesSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $27,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CL…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $14,800 · EnvironmentTHE WILDE…GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentGLACIAL L…WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $10,200 · EnvironmentWATERKEEP…THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIA…FRIENDS OF LEDGEVIEW NATURE CENTER: $5,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $37,500 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 · Community ImprovementEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $39,500 · Civil RightsCIVIL RIGHTS CORPS: $5,000 · Civil RightsBARD COLLEGE: $26,000 · EducationSahan Journal: $15,000 · Education
Other$448,699International$159,900Human Services$89,400Environment$79,000Community Improvement$62,500Civil Rights$44,500Education$41,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $87,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $44,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $39,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $35,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWCIJ INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSahan Journal: $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $14,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFONDY FOOD PANTRY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP MISHAWAKA: $12,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $11,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $10,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEAP Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WISCONSIN INC: $5,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEDGEVIEW NATURE CENTER: $5,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetCIVIL RIGHTS CORPS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $4,499 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA: $3,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Our Communities Partners: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WCIJ INC ↗
  • Who funds Sahan Journal ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MISHAWAKA ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Edward Jones Foundati…Baird Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 56 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 2024, released 2024. 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
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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