· Private foundation
The Ellen & Clarence Peterson 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| DELTA ZETA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEART MOUNTAIN WY FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| ORANGE COAST OPTIMIST CLUB OF G G | $4,000 |
| LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| DOWNEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $2,000 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL CC | $2,000 |
| SOUTH GATOR BASKETBALL CLUB | $2,000 |
| CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SANCTUARY OF UNIVERSAL LOVE | $2,000 |
| GLENDORA HS DIAMOND CLUB | $1,000 |
| RCCD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VFW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SANTA ANA SOCCER CLUB | $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 (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 24 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RARIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +281%
- DZDelta Zeta Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +48%
- CBCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NCNORTHERN CA WILDFIRES FAST PITCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PFPLACER FAMILY HOUSING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
1736 family crisis center is dedicated to restoring stability and opportunity for americans in need. we provide professional support for children, families, and veterans facing challenges such as crime, abuse, homelessness, unemployment,…
TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
We exist to empower the vulnerable who have experienced the breakdown of the family unit through restorative relationships and life-skills development. we serve those who have experienced foster care, domestic abuse, homelessness, and…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
In 2019 the juvenile dependency attorneys in indio formed coachella valley foster kids. we represent on average 1200 to 1500 youths in the foster system. these kids have either been permanently removed from their parents, or are in the…
The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…
The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.
To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 104 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 RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Delta Zeta Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIVINGHELP GROUP ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EXCEL ↗
- Who funds FACE OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Riverside California ↗
- Who funds PLACER FAMILY HOUSING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH GATOR BASKETBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNEY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds La Sierra University ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS LIFE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CENTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ellen & Clarence Peterson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ellen & Clarence Peterson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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