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The Pelton Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Housing & Shelter$287kReligion$216kEnvironment$151kHealth$56kArts & Culture$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kFood & Nutrition$21kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA PUENTE HOME INCORPORATED$40,176
ST ALBANS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$9,558
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$6,500
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$6,500
UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF$5,000
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$5,000
RENOVARE INC$3,500
DIOCESE OF TYLER$3,227
EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT$3,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK INC$2,500
ST ALBANS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,442
EL BUEN SAMARITANO EPISCOPAL MISSION$2,000
METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC$1,750
ST ALBANS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HONDURAS GOOD WORKS: $920 → 6%FEED THE NEED MISSIONS: $500 → 12%HONDURAS GOOD WORKS: $580 → 6%FEED THE NEED MISSIONS: $500 → 12%FEED THE NEED MISSIONS: $250 → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $700 → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $700 → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $700 → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $500 → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $2k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%AUSTIN REGION JFON: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $500 → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $250 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$857k · 55 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
5

Total granted

$857k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+8%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • LP
    LA PUENTE HOME INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +445%
  • RE
    REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +262%
  • RI
    Renovare Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • LH
    LINCOLN HILLS CARESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +29%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED
    one grant, 2024 · $500
  • SB
    SEA BASE ALUMNI & FRIENDS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

2
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
10
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
11
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas Jazz Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportYmca Youth DevelopmentChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%52%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA PUENTE HOME INC — $277,864 · OtherLA PUENTE HOME INCST ALBANS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $127,436 · OtherST ALBANS EPISCOPAL CHURCHUNITED METHODIST CHURCH & ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS — $40,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH & ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONSRenovare Inc — $28,000 · Other+43 more — $122,719 · Other+43 moreREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $132,158 · Recreation & SportsREEF ENVIRONMENTAL …DIVERS ALERT NETWORK — $10,500 · Recreation & SportsDIVERS ALERT NETWOR…The Colorado Trail Foundation — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT — $14,800 · Human ServicesHONDURAS GOOD WORKS — $13,750 · Human ServicesAUSTIN REGION JFON — $9,600 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION — $6,550 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $4,350 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $4,275 · Human Services+1 more — $1,250 · Human ServicesBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $9,950 · HealthMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC — $7,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,450 · HealthCONSPIRARE INC — $6,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $3,500 · Arts & CultureTexas Jazz Society Inc — $3,500 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $2,950 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,600 · Arts & CultureTHE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $718 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$596,019Recreation & Sports$147,658Human Services$54,575Health$24,900Arts & Culture$20,268Public Safety & Disaster$14,500Food & Nutrition$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC — $277,864 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $132,158 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetRenovare Inc — $28,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT — $14,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHONDURAS GOOD WORKS — $13,750 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERS ALERT NETWORK — $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER — $9,950 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN REGION JFON — $9,600 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetDRIPPING SPRINGS HELPING HANDS INC — $8,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEl Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC — $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $6,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCONSPIRARE INC — $6,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC — $6,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Colorado Trail Foundation — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS — $4,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $4,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $4,275 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center — $4,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MO-RANCH ASSEMBLY — $4,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Jazz Society Inc — $3,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEQUAL REPRESENTATION OF MEDIA ADVOCACY C — $3,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $3,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $2,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $2,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDR SUSAN LOVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY — $1,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFeed The Need Missions — $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PINK NFP — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $718 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN HILLS CARES — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbine Community Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LA PUENTE HOME INC
  • Who funds REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Renovare Inc
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HONDURAS GOOD WORKS
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc
  • Who funds DIVERS ALERT NETWORK
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds AUSTIN REGION JFON
  • Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS HELPING HANDS INC
  • Who funds CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission
  • Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds AARP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CONSPIRARE INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC
  • Who funds The Colorado Trail Foundation
  • Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE PROGRAMS
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MO-RANCH ASSEMBLY
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION
  • Who funds Texas Jazz Society Inc
  • Who funds EQUAL REPRESENTATION OF MEDIA ADVOCACY C
  • Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK 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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX23.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Better Business Bureau · St David's Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc

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 The Pelton Charitable 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc16% of income from government
  • The Innovation Foundation at Oklahoma State University Inc6% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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