How much does The Peternell Family Foundation give?

The Peternell Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Peternell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (9%).

Who are The Peternell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Colorado Foundation ($123k), Walking Mountains ($110k), Roundup River Ranch ($100k).

Does The Peternell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Peternell Family Foundation 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 Peternell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Gates Family Foundation, The Denver Foundation.

Where is The Peternell Family Foundation based?

The Peternell Family Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

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 FY2024(still arriving): 13
Grants FY2024: 8
Organizations funded FY2023: 13%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 11; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $3.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Peternell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	10	$145k	30%
FY2023	8	$137k	13%
FY2022	8	$123k	25%
FY2021	10	$117k	30%
FY2020	9	$110k	11%
FY2019	10	$117k	30%
FY2018	9	$110k	22%
FY2017	11	$120k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation	$123,450	8	0%
Walking Mountains	$110,000	8	1%
Roundup River Ranch	$100,000	8	0%
Eagle Valley Land Trust	$95,000	8	1%
Trout Unlimited	$60,000	2	n/a
Inside the Orchestra	$58,050	3	6%
Northwest Denver Neighborhood Center	$40,000	3	64%
Bicycle Colorado	$40,000	4	1%
Central Colorado Conservacy	$35,000	2	3%
Denver Urban Gardens	$35,000	4	1%

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All grantees of The Peternell Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation	$123,450	8	0%
Walking Mountains	$110,000	8	1%
Roundup River Ranch	$100,000	8	0%
Eagle Valley Land Trust	$95,000	8	1%
Trout Unlimited	$60,000	2	n/a
Inside the Orchestra	$58,050	3	6%
Northwest Denver Neighborhood Center	$40,000	3	64%
Bicycle Colorado	$40,000	4	1%
Central Colorado Conservacy	$35,000	2	3%
Denver Urban Gardens	$35,000	4	1%
Yampa Valley Sustainability Council	$20,000	3	1%
Edison Elementary School PTA	$17,000	2	n/a
Skinner Middle School PTO	$13,000	1	15%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	1	0%
Sacred Cycle	$10,000	1	n/a
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado	$10,000	2	0%
Sacred Heart House of Denver	$10,000	1	n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County	$10,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Yampa Inc	$7,500	1	2%
Mountain Tots Preschool	$7,500	1	2%
Challenge America	$5,000	1	1%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Northfield High School Foundation	$3,000	1	2%
The Ability Experience	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.

The Peternell Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

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

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.

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About The Peternell Family Foundation

How much does The Peternell Family Foundation give?: The Peternell Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Peternell Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
Who are The Peternell Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Colorado Foundation ($123k), Walking Mountains ($110k), Roundup River Ranch ($100k).
Does The Peternell Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Peternell Family Foundation 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 Peternell Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Gates Family Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is The Peternell Family Foundation based?: The Peternell Family Foundation is based in DE.