· Private foundation
Robert & Debra Peterson Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA | $28,200 |
| BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,100 |
| VIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CANCER | $5,145 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +118% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VFVIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +118%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +230%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- CCCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +66%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +61%
- MHMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS2× · 2023–2024 · $6k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
How this is measured
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 27 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 VIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC ↗
- Who funds PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Debra Peterson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Debra Peterson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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