· Private foundation
The Joseph & Shirley Peterson 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MISSION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERISTY OF THE NATIONS KONA | $3,000 |
| PHOS LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS | $700 |
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +28%
- YWYOUTH WITH A MISSION6× · 2017–2022 · $20k
- NMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY3× · 2017–2019 · $15k
Funded once
- FCFIREPOINT CHURCH INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- CCCALVARY CHAPEL CHINO HILLSone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Present the gospel
Evangelist work
To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
The word and song ministries, inc. intervines god's holy word with songs that give evidence to the truth of his word, seeking to glorify the heavenly father and make disciples of the believers of his son, our lord jesus christ.
Ptm worldwide publishes christianity without the religion magazine and plain truth magazine. ptm further serves with daily radio programs, blogs, bible surveys and many other free inspirational resources on its website, www.ptm.org
Daily podcast of bible readings in multiple languages
The mission of jesusonline is to use internet technologies to help people throughout the world discover who jesus is, trust him as lord and savior, follow him wholeheartedly and share him with others.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 29 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SONG OF ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH LIST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joseph & Shirley Peterson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph & Shirley Peterson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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