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The Peternell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Environment$470kEducation$244kRecreation & Sports$100kCommunity Improvement$90kPhilanthropy$70kArts & Culture$58kFood & Nutrition$35kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TROUT UNLIMITED INC$30,000
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH$25,000
EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST$20,000
INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA INC$18,050
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$17,000
WALKING MOUNTAINS$15,000
VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$6,450
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$5,000
YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL$5,000
Yampa Valley Community Foundation$5,000
NORTHFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$3,000
ABILITY EXPERIENCE$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $12k → 17%SACRED CYCLE INC: $10k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%WALKING MOUNTAINS: $25k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $25k → 8%INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA INC: $18k → 8%CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY: $20k → 10%INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA INC: $15k → 10%PTA COLORADO CONGRESS: $10k → 12%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $30k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%WALKING MOUNTAINS: $15k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $15k → 8%CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY: $15k → 10%INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA INC: $15k → 10%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN: $10k → 12%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $28k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $10k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY: $10k → 10%INSIDE THE ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 10%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 9%WALKING MOUNTAINS: $15k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $10k → 8%NORTHWEST DENVER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 12%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 9%WALKING MOUNTAINS: $15k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $10k → 8%SKINNER MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO: $13k → 12%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 9%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 7%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $10k → 8%NORTHWEST DENVER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $13k → 12%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $15k → 9%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 7%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 7%DENVER URBAN GARDENS: $10k → 12%ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $10k → 7%SACRED HEART HOUSE OF DENVER: $10k → 12%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%DENVER URBAN GARDENS: $10k → 12%WALKING MOUNTAINS: $10k → 7%DENVER URBAN GARDENS: $10k → 12%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%BICYCLE COLORADO: $15k → 12%EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20k → 7%EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $15k → 7%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of The Peternell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Peternell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$886k · 14 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$886k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+47%

Still filing today

79%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +79%
  • WM
    WALKING MOUNTAINS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +45%
  • RR
    ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • SM
    SKINNER MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -47%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • TC
    TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
2
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
3
The Colorado Trail Foundation

To provide, improve, and maintain, through voluntary public involvement and in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, a linear, non-motorized, sustainable, scenic, recreation trail corridor for hikers,…

Recreation & Sports
4
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado

Motivate and enable people to be active stewards of colorado's natural resources.

Recreation & Sports
5
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
6
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
7
Yampatika

Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.

Environment
8
Environmental Learning for Kids

Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.

Youth Development
9
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
10
Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…

Recreation & Sports
11
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
12
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers

To Promote Stewardship of our public lands by engaging the community in education, conservation and restoration projects.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roundup River Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Tots Preschool. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr15%17%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr9%38%35–55yr34%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr15%6%10–20yr13%31%20–35yr9%44%35–55yr34%17%55yr+

The field is 17% 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%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
2,455/18,432

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.

05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $123,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONWALKING MOUNTAINS — $110,000 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINSBICYCLE COLORADO — $40,000 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADONORTHWEST DENVER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $40,000 · EducationNORTHWEST DENVER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTE…Edison Elementary School PTA — $17,000 · EducationSKINNER MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO — $13,000 · Education+2 more — $10,500 · EducationTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $142,500 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED INCTROUT UNLIMITED — $60,000 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITEDTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN — $10,000 · OtherSACRED HEART HOUSE OF DENVER — $10,000 · OtherSacred Cycle — $10,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · OtherLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAFFEE COUNTY — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $10,500 · OtherEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $95,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE VALLEY LA…DENVER URBAN GARDENS — $35,000 · EnvironmentDENVER URBAN GA…YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL — $20,000 · EnvironmentYAMPA VALLEY SU…FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP R…Inside the Orchestra — $58,050 · Arts & CultureInside th…Central Colorado Conservacy — $35,000 · Arts & CultureCentral C…VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Community ImprovementYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $52,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $12,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$353,950Other$273,000Environment$157,500Recreation & Sports$100,000Arts & Culture$93,050Community Improvement$90,000Philanthropy$69,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $123,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS — $110,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $100,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $95,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetInside the Orchestra — $58,050 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST DENVER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $40,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy — $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL — $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSKINNER MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO — $13,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMountain Tots Preschool — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGE AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthfield High School Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE — $500 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Gates Family Foundati…The Denver FoundationMile High United Way …Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO30.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Peternell Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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