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Peterson Solutions Fund
See schedule oPETERSON SOLUTIONS FUND is a nonpartisan organization that promotes social welfare and advocates for fact-based solutions to improve the policymaking process, stabilize america's fiscal outlook, achieve better healthcare outcomes at lower cost, and strengthen the pillars of our democracy to support a thriving economy for…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $580k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORD COALITION ACTION FUND | $2,050,000 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC | $400,000 |
| THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION | $305,000 |
| AMERICAN POLICY VENTURES ACTION INC | $250,000 |
| EMPLOYERS FORUM OF INDIANA INC | $160,000 |
| REPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP | $150,000 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC | $150,000 |
| THE ERISA INDUSTRY COMMITTEE | $120,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| THIRD WAY | $17,000 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- FTFIX THE DEBT COALITION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +140% · 57% of their budget
- BPBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +4%
- TWTHIRD WAY2× · 2024–2025 · $34k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- PDPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $185k · revenue +39%
- IOISSUE ONE ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +207% · 40% of their budget
- CFCENTER FORWARDone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.
To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue. to actively promote bipartisanship and work to address the key challenges facing the nation including energy and infrastructure,…
To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.
Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates
Public agenda strengthens american democracy by connecting research to action enabling people and institutions to pursue changes that make a difference. we amplify the voices of americans and help communities discover and build on common…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.
Conduct research and expose abuse of authority and power by government authorities and the deleterious effect such actions have on american democracy.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Issue One Action and the most unlike its peers is Third Way. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 FIX THE DEBT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POLICY VENTURES ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYERS' FORUM OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds REPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE ERISA INDUSTRY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ACTION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Information Innovation Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Business Roundtable 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 Solutions Fund 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.
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