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Petersen Family Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $211,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL | $15,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,300 |
| ST MARKS CATHEDRAL | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| VOA - CHERISH THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CADDO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| SCI-PORT DISCOVERY CENTER | $500 |
| GINGERBREAD HOUSE | $500 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $500 |
| MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY | $500 |
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 (FY25–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
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.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.
34 bed hospital located in a medically underserved parish in northwest louisiana. includes three rural health clinics,24 hour emergency services, industrial medicine clinic, and wellness/therapy center.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
To improve children's access to healthcare, education, & support services.
We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To help assure the proper moral, psychological, intellectual, vocational, and physical development of at-risk children through community-based, school-based, and academic mentoring
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
Our Mission is to help individuals with autism and their families experience more joy and achieve meaningful life outcomes by providing evidence-based therapies, innovative programs and continuous advocacy.
Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Delta Waterfowl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STEAMED RICE INC FKA SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Petersen Family Foundation 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.
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