· Private foundation
Peterson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| GENNESSARET FREE CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC | $1,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $200 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC | $200 |
| JULIAN CENTER INC | $100 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY FOR HAMILTON COUNTY INC | $100 |
| METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC | $100 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $100 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION (ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH) | $100 |
| LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF INKY INC | $100 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $100 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES | $100 |
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 (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CTCONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +65%
- GFGENNESARET FREE CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +29%
- LCLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +52%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +208%- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CEone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
See schedule o lutheran family services in the carolinas (lfs) is dedicated to one simple goal, improving the lives of the most vulnerable populations in north and south carolina. the lfs mission statement is, "empowered by christ, we walk…
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
The world molecular imaging society (wmis) is an international scientific educational organization dedicated to the understanding of biology and medicine through multimodal in vivo imaging of cellular and molecular events involved in…
We provide comprehensive hospice care services, supportive care for pain & symptom management for those with serious illness, and grief support. through our mission, willamette vital health supports adults and children living with a…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Child and Family Services of in/Ky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Siberian Lutheran Mission Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 35 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 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENNESARET FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Hamilton County ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Siberian Lutheran Mission Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Peterson Family Foundation Inc 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.