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The Pedersen Foundation at a glance

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The Pedersen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.2MEducation$3.1MHuman Services$2.1MScience & Tech$125kPhilanthropy$118kYouth Development$105kInternational$100kAnimals$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$239M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BADGER SIX$1,100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
WARRIOR RISING$100,000
GIRL SECURITY$100,000
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$25,000
FREEDOM ALLIANCE$20,000
FORMAN SCHOOL$20,000
BULLIS HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$15,000
SUMARITANS PURSE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SAINT FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$10,000
DENNIS LEARY FIREFIGHTER FUND$10,000
MONROE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ANIMAL FARM$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Puppies Behind Bars: $6k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%BADGER SIX: $1.1M → 10%DONOR SIBLING REGISTRY: $15k → 12%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $15k → 14%DONOR SIBLING REGISTRY: $8k → 12%The Fishing School: $10k → 14%DONOR SIBLING REGISTRY: $5k → 12%DONOR SIBLING REGISTRY: $5k → 12%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $10k → 14%Donor Sibling Registry: $5k → 12%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR WASHINGTON DC INC: $10k → 14%Donor Sibling Registry: $2k → 12%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC: $5k → 14%COMFORT CASES INC: $10k → 8%Little Sisters of the Poor: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 14 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
39

Total granted

$1.4M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $846k · revenue +126%
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF NEUROSCIENCE FOR ARCHITECTURE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue ×13 · 58% of their budget
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6.0M · revenue +29%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +26%
  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
2
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
3
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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4
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
9
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
10
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
11
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
12
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mantech International Special Assistance Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC+9 more: $148,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+2 more: $30,000 · EducationST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $846,000 · OtherST FRANCIS NE…GIRL SECURITY: $100,000 · OtherGIRL SECURITYIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual gr…FREEDOM ALLIANCE: $70,000 · Other+35 more: $400,000 · Other+35 moreBADGER SIX INC: $1,100,000 · Human ServicesBADGER SIX …+8 more: $176,000 · Human Services+8 moreACADEMY OF NEUROSCIENCE FOR ARCHITECTURE: $125,000 · Science & TechWarrior Rising: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $15,000 · AnimalsHidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUDOUN COUNTY: $10,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INC: $8,000 · AnimalsHELPING HOMELESS FELINES: $5,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Animals
Health$6,148,000Education$3,030,000Other$1,516,000Human Services$1,276,000Science & Tech$125,000Philanthropy$110,000Animals$78,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBADGER SIX INC: $1,100,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $846,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetACADEMY OF NEUROSCIENCE FOR ARCHITECTURE: $125,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetWarrior Rising: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDONOR SIBLING REGISTRY: $40,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fishing School Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANTECH INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUDOUN COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ALEXANDRIA'S CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HOMELESS FELINES: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuck Key Community Benefit Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMARYLAND COALITION OF FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe House DC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…United Way of the Nat…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…The Community Foundat…Van Metre Companies F…America's CharitiesCommunity Foundation …T Rowe Price Program …Aetna Foundation IncDominion Energy Chari…National Philanthropi…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC20.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pedersen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pedersen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Pedersen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pedersen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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