· Private foundation
Steve Pearson Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRITTENTON CENTER | $50,000 |
| SEASONS CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALT | $20,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| CAMP FOSTER YMCA | $20,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR PETS | $10,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $10,000 |
| HOOKER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EMMETT COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| LOVE TAKES ROOT | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NW IOWA | $5,000 |
| SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTIVE ASSOC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–26, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA7× · 2020–2026 · $172k · revenue +194%
- TCTHE CRITTENTON CENTER4× · 2023–2026 · $110k · revenue +62%
- LTLOVE TAKES ROOT INC7× · 2020–2026 · $35k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- YCY Camp Fosterone grant, 2022 · $20k
- PLPEARSON LAKES ART CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +9%
- BMBlack Mountain United Church of Christone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
The des moines county humane society provides shelter and rescue operations for animals in des moines county, secures permanent, loving homes for abandoned, abused, or neglected animals, and teaches responsible pet ownership and compassion…
Our organization believes it is our moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of rescued animals and place them in loving permanent homes in st. louis metro.
Humane Treatment of all animals and to enhance the Human-Animal bond
Animal lifeline is a special needs no kill animal shelter that helps dogs & cats that are abused, seriously ill, handicapped, pregnant & nursing moms, orphan babies that need to be bottle fed & abandoned. we provide vet care, surgery,…
The primary purpose of the corporation is to provide support for charitable and educational causes primarily, but not exclusively, in the state of iowa in the okoboji area.
Provide books and research capabilities to the public
Noahs Hope Animal Rescue accepts unwanted and street animals; restores health and then places the animals in homes around the metro Siouxland area.
Provide for shelter, food, veterinary services and adoption of small animals. this shelter operates as a no kill shelter in north central iowa.
Established in 2005, La Crescent Animal Rescue (LAR) is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to the protection and welfare of animals in La Crescent, Minnesota. Our rescue shelter depends solely on the support and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Okoboji Foundation. 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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 PEOPLE FOR PETS ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE CRITTENTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IOWA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE TAKES ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMMET COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN P BRATKOWSKI MEMORIAL 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Maser Family Foundation · Krause Gentle Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Steve Pearson Foundation Inc 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.
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.