Missouri · Private foundation
Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main 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; $125k 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 | 46 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $960k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.0M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $790k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $900k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $408k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Center Utah | $585,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake | $505,550 | 7 | 2% |
| The Road Home | $493,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Inn Between | $370,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Women of the World | $305,000 | 7 | 12% |
| First Step House | $295,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Salt Lake Donated Dental Services | $245,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Utah Food Bank | $235,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho | $190,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah | $185,000 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($685k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati
How this is measured
About Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main
- How much does Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main give?
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main reported 46 grants totaling $1,100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Youth Development (19%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Children's Center Utah ($585k), Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake ($506k), The Road Home ($493k).
- Does Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main 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 Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah.
- Where is Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main based?
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main is based in MO.
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