· Private foundation
Petters Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM & MARY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SOUNDSCAPES | $366,990 |
| US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| SON OF A SAINT | $210,000 |
| AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM | $205,000 |
| PEAKE CHILDHOOD CENTER | $202,500 |
| VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION | $200,000 |
| BEARINGS BIKE SHOP | $150,000 |
| MARINER'S MUSEUM AND PARK | $100,000 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| WHRO | $75,000 |
| FIRSTSPARK | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA | $20,000 |
| LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR NOLA | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- WMWilliam & Mary Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +98%
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +41%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +74%
Funded once
- VCVirginia Capitol Foundationone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -77% · 32% of their budget
- LGLET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +213%
- KBKIPP BELIEVE COLLEGE PREPone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
Virginia learns brings together business and education leaders with the shared goal of creating a more innovative, relevant and equitable public education system in virginia.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…
Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The mission of the henrico education foundation (hef) is to strengthen public education by advancing innovative programs and initiatives designed to improve student achievement.
The virginia peninsula community college educational foundation is a private,non-profit, tax exempt organization dedicated to advancing and financially supporting educational excellence at virginia peninsula community college. it also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bayport Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 43 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 William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Virginia Peninsula ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDSCAPES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Capitol Foundation ↗
- Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
- Who funds LET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTSPARK INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DEGOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS ↗
- Who funds Tailhook Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Business School Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAYPORT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Townebank Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Abbitt Family Foundation · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Vubay Foundation · The Isabel Duncan Hatchett Foundation
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 Petters Family Foundation 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.
- Saint Leo University Inc — 0% 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.