Texas · Private foundation
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.
- $7.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Petersen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $7.9M | 82% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $450k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $4,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $3,100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Second Baptist School Foundation Inc | $1,605,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Red Raider Facilities Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Astros Golf Foundation | $800,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Council on Recovery | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Houston Police Foundation | $225,000 | 1 | 8% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cal Farley's Boys Ranch | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $4,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $3,100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Second Baptist School Foundation Inc | $1,605,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Red Raider Facilities Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Astros Golf Foundation | $800,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Council on Recovery | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Houston Police Foundation | $225,000 | 1 | 8% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cal Farley's Boys Ranch | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Holdsworth Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alira Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Ozark Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Center for Hearing and Speech | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Endowment Fund of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Petersen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Petersen Family Foundation
- How much does Petersen Family Foundation give?
- Petersen Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $7,944,834 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Petersen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (9%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Petersen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($4.0M), Memorial Hermann Foundation ($3.1M), Second Baptist School Foundation Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Petersen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Petersen Family Foundation 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 Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Petersen Family Foundation based?
- Petersen Family Foundation is based in TX.
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