· Private foundation
The Peterson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY | $16,700 |
| OURGANDA | $15,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SW WASHINGTON | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +80% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DIDISCOVERY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $766k · revenue +112%
- AFADVENTIST FORUM8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +29%
- YAYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $52k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- MCMISSION CATALYSTone grant, 2017 · $53k
- EEPIKOSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION SUPPORTING CLIMATE SCIENCE INCone grant, 2022 · $24k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Pacific union college is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Biblical worldview advancement
Washington adventist university is a learning community committed to the seventh-day adventist christian vision of excellence and service. this cosmopolitan institution challenges students to seize the opportunities for learning in the…
We are a global community of Christians committed to serving others as well as possible, using evidence and reason. We inspire and equip others to do likewise. Our activities aim to promote effective giving, support high-impact career…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Conference
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Action and Contemplation and the most unlike its peers is Hermiston Adventist School Foundation. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 62 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 DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST FORUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION SUPPORTING CLIMATE SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds HERMISTON ADVENTIST SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Riverside Christian School ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Achon Uganda Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds REAL RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS IN CHARGE ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST TODAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Ministry Alliance ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for SW Washington ↗
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.
Open a dossier: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Versacare Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Peterson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
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.