· Private foundation
Peterson Family Foundation-Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORPHANS OF THE STORM | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL AVIARY | $40,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY | $35,000 |
| BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| FUR ALL KITTIES | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
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
- NANATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +59%
- OOORPHANS OF THE STORM3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +44%
- BCBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- APAnimal Protectors of Allegheny Valleygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +59%
- HSHumane Society of Greene County Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -54%
- HAHEAL ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
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 help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.
Baywater animal rescue is a no-kill shelter dedicated to improving the lives of people and pets
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
Improve animal welfare
To provide services to homeless animals
AAR is an all volunteer organization that works towards ending pet overpopulation that results in the euthanasia of unwanted cats and dogs by providing a rescue and adoption center by emphasizing the importance of spaying and neutering and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Gray Paws Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Washington Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Greene County Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAL ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FUR ALL KITTYS ↗
- Who funds GRAY PAWS SANCTUARY ↗
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: Margaret Raphael Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Jessie Corson Trust · Fred J and Shirley H Jordan Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Network for Good · Baird Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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-Tr 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.