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The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
8
Organizations funded FY2018
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87% of The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to The Denver Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2018
$10,500
Largest grant, FY2018
$984,778
States reached, FY2018
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Rhode Riverkeeper Inc$5,50013%
Arundel Rivers Federation Inc$50010%
Scenic Rivers Land Trust Inc$50010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($169k), not named here.

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About The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation

How much does The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation give?
The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,303,386 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (87%), Health (8%), Environment (4%).
Who are The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: West Rhode Riverkeeper Inc ($6k), Arundel Rivers Federation Inc ($500), Scenic Rivers Land Trust Inc ($500).
Does The Mitchell Petersen 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.
Where is The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation based?
The Mitchell Petersen Family Foundation is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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