· Private foundation
The Peterman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PET HELPERS INC | $70,000 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS OF NORTH | $70,000 |
| MOUNTAINEER SPAY NEUTER ASSIST PRO | $62,500 |
| MARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| MOUNTAINEERS FOR MUTTS | $30,500 |
| STEPPING STONES | $30,437 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND WV INC | $30,000 |
| PRESTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIET | $20,000 |
| DAVIS CREW KITTENS | $7,500 |
| APPALACHIAN PEACE PAWS RESCUE | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- PHPET HELPERS INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +28% · 33% of their budget
- MCMARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +91%
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS OF NORTH CENTRAL WV3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- TCTAYLOR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.
rescue-spay-neuter and adopt into forever homes
Animal Shelter
Animal welfare
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Animal shelter
To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
We are a non-profit, no-kill animal rescue shelterToday, the Humane Society providesMedical treatment for animals,shots and heart worm tests, medications,foster homes, care and feed for fostered animals not housed at the shelter, trailer…
Shelter & loving care for strays
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountaineers for Mutts Corp and the most unlike its peers is Stepping Stones Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PET HELPERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF NORTH CENTRAL WV ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND WV INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEERS FOR MUTTS CORP ↗
- Who funds PRESTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TAYLOR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
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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 Peterman 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.
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.
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