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· 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 FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Health$1.8MYouth Development$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHuman Services$520kInternational$445kFood & Nutrition$422kEducation$385kPublic Safety & Disaster$270kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $855k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH FOOD BANK$60,000
THE INN BETWEEN$60,000
THE ROAD HOME$60,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SALT LAKE$50,000
EYE CARE FOR KIDS$45,000
SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES$40,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$40,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF UTAH COUNTY$40,000
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF UTAH INC$40,000
WOMEN OF THE WORLD$40,000
TABITHAS WAY$40,000
FIRST STEP HOUSE$40,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$30,000
FAMILY PROMISE SALT LAKE$30,000
UTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $40k → 14%TABITHAS WAY: $40k → 8%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $30k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $20k → 12%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%TABITHA'S WAY: $25k → 8%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS INC: $30k → 12%RAISE THE FUTURE: $10k → 12%TABITHAS WAY: $25k → 8%SEEKHAVEN INC: $20k → 11%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 12%TABITHAS WAY: $20k → 8%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $10k → 12%TABITHA'S WAY: $10k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $100k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $100k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $50k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $85k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $75k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $60k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $60k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $50k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $60k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $30k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $60k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $25k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $60k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $20k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $60k → 8%UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $50k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $20k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $20k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $8k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $40k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $40k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $20k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $20k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $20k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $15k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $15k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 43 repeat orgs$495k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
12

Total granted

$5.8M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-15%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $585k · revenue +92%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $506k · revenue +21%
  • TR
    THE ROAD HOME
    8× · 2018–2025 · $493k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUNTAINLANDS FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S CENTERLANTERN HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • FS
    FIRST STEP HOUSE ROSE PARK RESIDENTIAL C
    one grant, 2019 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Volunteers of America Utah

To provide community-supported paths, for those who are vulnerable, to improve their lives and increase their self-reliance. we envision a community where everyone belongs, everyone has access to the services they need, and homelessness is…

2
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
3
Utah Association of Family Support Centers Inc

The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…

4
Latino Behavioral Health Services

Lbhs is a nonprofit, grassroots organization created to minimize the disparities in access to mental health services among the underserved latino population concentrated in salt lake county and the rest utah. as an organization run by…

Human Services
5
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

6
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
7
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
8
People Helping People

People helping people (php) is dedicated to reducing the number of children living in poverty by teaching low-income women, primarily single moms, how to earn a living wage. each year, 1,000 prospective clients enroll in our employment…

Human Services
9
Friends of the Children - Utah

Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
10
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
11
Shelter Providers of Utah

To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

12
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Project. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%4%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr8%36%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
15%
1,283/8,473

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.

04the grantee network

59 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
32/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $585,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $505,550 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKEUTAH FOOD BANK — $235,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS — $205,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSEYE CARE FOR KIDS UT — $170,000 · OtherEYE CARE FOR KIDS UTTHERAPEUTIC PRESCHOOL PROGRAM — $115,000 · Other+34 more — $855,000 · Other+34 moreTHE ROAD HOME — $493,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMETHE INN BETWEEN — $370,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEENUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $180,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCEUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $170,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGETABITHA'S WAY — $120,000 · Human ServicesTABITHA'S WAYLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc — $80,000 · Human Services+9 more — $205,000 · Human Services+9 moreFIRST STEP HOUSE — $295,000 · HealthFIRST STEP HOUS…SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES — $245,000 · HealthSALT LAKE DONAT…Mountainlands Community Health Center — $140,000 · HealthMountainlands C…EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah — $135,000 · HealthEYE CARE FOR KI…MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $45,000 · Health+3 more — $30,000 · HealthWomen of the World — $305,000 · InternationalWomen of th…Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho — $190,000 · InternationalJunior Achi…BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $85,000 · InternationalBUILDING YO…Lifting Hands International — $45,000 · InternationalLifting Han…Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $185,000 · EducationGranite Education Foundation — $185,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKostopulos Dream Foundation — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,670,550Human Services$1,618,000Health$890,000International$625,000Education$370,000Youth Development$80,000Recreation & Sports$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $585,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $505,550 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $493,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $370,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetWomen of the World — $305,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetFIRST STEP HOUSE — $295,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES — $245,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $235,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho — $190,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $185,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetGranite Education Foundation — $185,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $180,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $170,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMountainlands Community Health Center — $140,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah — $135,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTABITHA'S WAY — $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $85,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS — $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER — $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT — $50,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLifting Hands International — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL — $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS — $40,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation — $40,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD DEED REVOLUTION — $30,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFamily Promise - Salt Lake — $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA ALLENTOWN — $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUTUREINDESIGN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Family Service — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEPICENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSANPETE PANTRY — $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMENDING MINDS VILLAGE — $10,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetBIKE UTAH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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 THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN
  • Who funds Women of the World
  • Who funds FIRST STEP HOUSE
  • Who funds SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
  • Who funds Granite Education Foundation
  • Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE
  • Who funds Mountainlands Community Health Center
  • Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah
  • Who funds TABITHA'S WAY
  • Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Little Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR SIGHT
  • Who funds Lifting Hands International
  • Who funds MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah
  • Who funds UTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL
  • Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds ODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH
  • Who funds SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
  • Who funds GOOD DEED REVOLUTION
  • Who funds Family Promise - Salt Lake

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT86.8× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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