· Private foundation
Peters Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k16 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (VELOSANO) | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION INC | $5,000 |
| YMCA FOUNDATION | $3,200 |
| CENTRAL WI SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRL CLUB OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $1,700 |
| OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $250 |
| UWSP FOUNDATION | $125 |
| CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Peters Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CUCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +18%
- UWUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC3× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +14%
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MICHAEL'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ILIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TCTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…
The mission of wisconsin center for nursing, inc. is to assure an adequate, well-prepared and diverse nurse workforce for the people of wisconsin. the work of the wisconsin center for nursing continues to be focused in five core nursing…
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS STEVENS POINT HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MILWAUKEE CO SUB LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHMEECKLE RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP ↗
- Who funds MONTEVERDI MASTER CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL CONSERVANCY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICEWORKS LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SUZUKI FOUNDATION OF STEVENS POINT WISCONSIN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Seramur Family Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · McPartland Family Foundation Inc · Noel Family Foundation Inc · Edward J Okray Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc
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 Peters Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.