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The Peter T Joseph Foundation at a glance

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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 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, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$21,000
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$21,000
UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC$21,000
MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC$21,000
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK$10,000
PRO KIDS$10,000
VIKRAMSILA FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SW OHIO REGION$10,000
SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$10,000
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY$10,000
LAST CHANCE CORRAL$9,000
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOGA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetEve Center Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSTOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

The Ford FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Jewish Communal FundKpf Foundation Co Koh…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Liberty Hill Foundati…Tides FoundationNational Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…
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

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 T Joseph Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter T Joseph Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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