· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC | $150,000 |
| REPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP | $150,000 |
| THE ERISA INDUSTRY COMMITTEE | $120,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| THIRD WAY | $17,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Business Roundtable Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peterson Solutions Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peterson Solutions Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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