· Private foundation
Peterson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK | $150,000 |
| CAMP HIGH HOPES | $45,000 |
| CAMP FOSTER YMCA | $20,000 |
| OKOBOJI YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| OKOBOJI FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY | $5,000 |
| OKOBOJI SUMMER THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE CRADLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAPLE VALLEY-ANTHON OTO COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Buena Vista University5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +4%- BABOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA2× · 2018–2019 · $300k · revenue +156% · 26% of their budget
- CHCAMP HIGH HOPES8× · 2018–2025 · $181k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF SIOUXLANDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIOWA GREAT LAKES TRAILSone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA ↗
- Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
- Who funds Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JACKSON RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WARMING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
- Who funds OKOBOJI YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
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: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Aalfs Family Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Gleeson Family Foundation · Ronald B and Joan B Krage Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Greenberg Foundation · Michael & Marjory Bennett Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peterson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peterson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Peterson Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Peterson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Peterson Family’s filings →