· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SW WASHINGTON | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Peterson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peterson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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