Virginia · 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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Petters Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $3.2M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $2.7M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.6M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $2.3M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.0M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $3.1M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $2.5M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $1.4M | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William & Mary Foundation | $8,080,000 | 9 | 3% |
| US Naval Academy Foundation Inc | $2,100,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc | $1,650,000 | 8 | 6% |
| An Achievable Dream Inc | $1,210,000 | 8 | 23% |
| United Way of the Virginia Peninsula | $1,050,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Virginia Living Museum Inc | $900,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Bearings Bike Shop Inc | $900,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Downtown Hampton Child Care Council Inc | $824,400 | 9 | 11% |
| Soundscapes Inc | $766,703 | 7 | 26% |
| The Mariners' Museum | $710,000 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($757k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Petters Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Petters Family Foundation
- How much does Petters Family Foundation give?
- Petters Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $3,244,490 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Petters Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (13%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are Petters Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William & Mary Foundation ($8.1M), US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($2.1M), The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Petters Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Petters Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Petters Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Sentara Health, Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu.
- Where is Petters Family Foundation based?
- Petters Family Foundation is based in VA.
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