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Peterson Family Foundation-Tr at a glance

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Peterson Family Foundation-Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 9%HEAL ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 10%BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 10%HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $20k → 11%WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENE CO INC: $10k → 13%ORPHANS OF THE STORM: $50k → 8%WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $15k → 23%BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%ANIMAL PROTECTORS OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY: $10k → 10%BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 10%HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 11%WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $17k → 12%ORPHANS OF THE STORM: $40k → 8%BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 10%HOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY: $35k → 11%WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $15k → 12%ORPHANS OF THE STORM: $10k → 8%NATIONAL AVIARY: $40k → 11%WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%NATIONAL AVIARY: $20k → 11%NATIONAL AVIARY: $20k → 11%NATIONAL AVIARY PITTSBURGH INC: $20k → 11%NATIONAL AVIARY: $20k → 11%SENIOR PET AND ANIMAL RESCUE: $4k → 11%ANIMAL FRIENDS: $25k → 11%GRAY PAWS SANCTUARY: $4k → 11%ANIMAL FRIENDS: $25k → 11%FUR ALL KITTIES: $5k → 11%HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$492k · 7 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$492k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+59%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +59%
  • OO
    ORPHANS OF THE STORM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • BC
    BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • AP
    Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • HS
    Humane Society of Greene County Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -43%
  • HA
    HEAL ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
Butler County Humane Society
Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
4
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
5
Familiar Hearts Animal Society

we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.

Animals
6
The Humane Society of Dorchester County Inc

Baywater animal rescue is a no-kill shelter dedicated to improving the lives of people and pets

Animals
7
Humane Society of Union County Inc

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.

Animals
8
Wayne County Humane Society
Animals
9
Humane Society of Greene County

Improve animal welfare

Animals
10
Raskels Rescue
Animals
11
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
12
Abandoned Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $120,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INCORPHANS OF THE STORM: $100,000 · AnimalsORPHANS OF THE STORMBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $75,000 · AnimalsBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYWASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $62,200 · AnimalsWASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETYHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $55,000 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUEAnimal Friends Inc: $50,000 · AnimalsAnimal Friends IncHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY: $35,000 · AnimalsHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARYBUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $30,000 · Animals+6 more: $53,500 · Animals+6 moreSENIOR PET AND ANIMAL RESCUE: $3,500 · Other
Animals$580,700Other$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Foun…Eqt FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…Jessie Corson TrustFred J and Shirley H …The Pittsburgh Founda…Network for GoodBaird Foundation IncVerizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peterson Family Foundation-Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peterson Family Foundation-Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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