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Peterson Family Foundation-Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Peterson Family Foundation-Tr 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.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
AnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$165k43%
FY20234$112k0%
FY202211$137k64%
FY20213$50k0%
FY20205$120kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$584k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Peterson Family Foundation-Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc$120,00050%
Orphans of the Storm$100,00031%
Beaver County Humane Society$75,00031%
Washington Area Humane Society$62,20042%
Humane Animal Rescue$55,00030%
Animal Friends Inc$50,00020%
Hope Haven Farm Sanctuary$35,000111%
Butler County Humane Society$30,00021%
Washington Humane Society$15,000134%
Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley$10,00012%
Humane Society of Greene County Inc$10,00012%
Heal Animal Rescue$10,00012%
Fur All Kittys$5,00012%
Gray Paws Sanctuary$3,50014%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Peterson Family Foundation-Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOrphans of the Storm: $100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBeaver County Humane Society: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWashington Area Humane Society: $62,200 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHumane Animal Rescue: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHope Haven Farm Sanctuary: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetButler County Humane Society: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWashington Humane Society: $15,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetAnimal Protectors of Allegheny Valley: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHumane Society of Greene County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHeal Animal Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFur All Kittys: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGray Paws Sanctuary: $3,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Margaret Raphael FoundationPA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Peterson Family Foundation-Tr

How much does Peterson Family Foundation-Tr give?
Peterson Family Foundation-Tr reported 7 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Peterson Family Foundation-Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Peterson Family Foundation-Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc ($120k), Orphans of the Storm ($100k), Beaver County Humane Society ($75k).
Does Peterson Family Foundation-Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peterson Family Foundation-Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Peterson Family Foundation-Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Margaret Raphael Foundation, Eqt Foundation, The Cigna Group Foundation.
Where is Peterson Family Foundation-Tr based?
Peterson Family Foundation-Tr is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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