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The Peter T Joseph 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.

$279k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

International$468kArts & Culture$327kCivil Rights$142kEducation$135kHuman Services$123kEnvironment$117kCrime & Legal$108kHealth$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $242k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$32,500
GIVE WELL$32,500
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$32,500
MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC$21,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$21,000
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$21,000
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC$21,000
VIKRAMSILA FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SW OHIO REGION$10,000
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY$10,000
SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$10,000
PRO KIDS$10,000
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK$10,000
LAST CHANCE CORRAL$9,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $13k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SISTERSONG: $3k → 13%ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE: $4k → 12%SISTERSONG: $2k → 13%EVE CENTER INC: $3k → 16%EVE CENTER INC: $1k → 16%EVE CENTER INC: $1k → 16%EVE CENTER: $500 → 16%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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RI
CA
CO
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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 41 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
20

Total granted

$1.6M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+67%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $232k · revenue +428%
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $86k · revenue +32%
  • P
    ProKids
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • PF
    PREP FOR PREPgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +82%
  • SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +79%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
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…

3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

Crime & Legal
5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
8
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
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…

11
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance Corral. 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 backsteadyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Equine Therapy ProgramsLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%25%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%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,512

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

51 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. 51 of the 65 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIKRAMASILA FOUNDATION INC — $93,000 · OtherVIKRAMASILA FOUNDATION INCSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $76,000 · OtherSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INCTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $60,000 · OtherTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORKWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $33,000 · OtherMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC — $57,800 · OtherMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INCTHE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS — $26,500 · OtherTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $39,800 · OtherTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INCCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $36,800 · OtherLAST CHANCE CORRAL — $43,000 · OtherLAST CHANCE CORRAL+25 more — $253,000 · Other+25 moreTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAG…The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $56,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati …BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE …THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM — $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SKYSCRAPER …Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMary Miss - Cit…NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $14,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LIVE A…THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEAR FUND — $232,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND+1 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $85,500 · InternationalPALESTINE C…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $50,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHT…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $21,000 · InternationalUNRWA USA N…AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN AC…+1 more — $1,500 · InternationalProKids — $69,500 · Civil RightsProKidsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $52,500 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $41,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN C…+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $61,500 · EducationWILLIAM J…RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $50,000 · EducationRHODE ISL…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN — $16,500 · EducationNATIONAL …PREP FOR PREP — $15,000 · EducationPREP FOR …+1 more — $4,000 · EducationGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $36,800 · Human ServicesANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE — $29,500 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesEve Center Inc — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$718,900Arts & Culture$241,000Philanthropy$239,500International$178,000Civil Rights$168,000Education$147,000Human Services$87,300

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 budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $232,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $85,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $76,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetProKids — $69,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $61,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $60,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC — $57,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAST CHANCE CORRAL — $43,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $39,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $36,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $36,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $33,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE — $29,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS — $26,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM — $23,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN — $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERSONG INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMary Miss - City as Living Laboratory — $15,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOGA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT WATCH NOLA — $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEve Center Inc — $5,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,500 over 2y, 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.

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.

The Ford FoundationNY17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Kpf Foundation Co Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Peter T Joseph Foundation 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 · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Sea Education Association Inc12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Peter T Joseph Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Peter T Joseph 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 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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