· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH4× · 2021–2024 · $585k · revenue +92%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE7× · 2019–2025 · $506k · revenue +21%
- TRTHE ROAD HOME8× · 2018–2025 · $493k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- MFMOUNTAINLANDS FAMILY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SAST ANNE'S CENTERLANTERN HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- FSFIRST STEP HOUSE ROSE PARK RESIDENTIAL Cone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
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…
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…
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.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.
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 field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.