· Private foundation
The Peterson Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k76 grants · $183k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $469k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $1,288,700 |
| PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $725,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S & ST AGNES SCHOOL | $605,000 |
| YORK HOSPITAL | $458,334 |
| OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION | $333,333 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE | $230,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $225,553 |
| PBO OF THE UNITED STATES | $150,000 |
| POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER INC | $136,000 |
| MINISTERIO LA BATALLA DE LA FE USA INC | $125,000 |
| IGLESIA AFRICANA METODISTA EPISCOPAL AME | $117,000 |
| AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK | $75,000 |
| PROJECT CURE | $75,000 |
| FAIRFAX UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $53,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $762k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
110 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +8%
- YHYork Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
- YFYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TPTHE PETERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION II INCone grant, 2020 · $5.7M · revenue -100% · 100% of their budget
- IAINOVA ALEXANDRIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $281k
- AANONYMOUSone grant, 2021 · $130k
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.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To promote networking, exchange, and creative collaboration among scientists, scholars, artists, and professionals in the u.s. and germany consistent with the goals of the alexander von humboldt foundation.
How this is measured
206 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 206 of the 275 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE PETERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION II INC ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds York Hospital ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Youth Invest Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Helping Children Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN BENEFIT HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Alloy Family Foundation Inc · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Stellar Solutions Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Peterson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peterson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
- Friends for Neighborhood Progress: 55% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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