How much does The Peter Musto Charitable Trust give?

The Peter Musto Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $136,701 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.

What does The Peter Musto Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (70%), Health (14%), Religion (7%).

Who are The Peter Musto Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Society of California Pioneers ($100k), Crocker Art Museum Association ($52k), Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem ($30k).

Does The Peter Musto Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Peter Musto Charitable Trust 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Peter Musto Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

Where is The Peter Musto Charitable Trust based?

The Peter Musto Charitable Trust is based in CA.

The Peter Musto Charitable Trust

The Peter Musto Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Peter Musto Charitable Trust

Its FY2021 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 FY2021

Grants FY2021

States reached

$77k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$208kHealth$41kReligion$22kAnimals$16kEducation$7kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$450Environment$400Other$0

02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k4 grants · $9k
$50k–250k2 grants · $127k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS	$77,401
CROCKER ART MUSEUM	$50,000
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN	$5,000
42ND STREET MOON	$2,500
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET	$1,500
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM	$300

02The need

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 (FY17–18, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$280k · 25 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$280k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+28%

Still filing today

60%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

PI
PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +46%
4S
42ND STREET MOON
5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +50%
GO
GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +29%

Funded once

MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +22%
SF
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -6%
C
CHANTICLEERS
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -77%

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.

San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture

California Bach Society Inc

Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…

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Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

Carmel Bach Festival Inc

Carmel Bach Festival offers innovative artistic programming across all concerts, off-season activities to expand access outside Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula, and is taking strategic risks to cultivate younger and more diverse…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture

Symphony San Jose

To provide orchestral music performances, educational services, and arts advocacy programs to the greater silicon valley region.

Arts & Culture

Midsummer Mozart Festival

The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…

Arts & Culture

California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education

The Schola Cantorum

Schola Cantorum connects people with the joy of singing through moving performances, educational and community programs, and collaborations with local artists.

Arts & Culture

Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture

New Century Chamber Orchestra

New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Baptist Hospital of Setx Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 37 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

17/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$201,034Other$44,730Health$41,480Education$5,500Religion$3,000Youth Development$450Human Services$300

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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Louise M Davies Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Peter Musto Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter Musto Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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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