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The Peterson Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36k
Granted FY2022
33
Grants FY2022
19
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Peterson Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Minneapolis Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Peterson Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 31 organizations, $36k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’21
31
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.

Philanthropy$1.2MInternational$14kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$2kReligion$2kHealth$1kEmployment$1kOther$46k
02FY2022 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
AMIGOS FOR CHRIST$1,000
INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FUND$1,000
WORLD MEDICAL RELIEF$1,000
GLOBAL LINKS$1,000
VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE$1,000
GLOBUS RELIEF FUND$1,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$1,000
SALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION$1,000
KIDS ALIVE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
JP MORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY$1,000
FAITH IN PRACTICE$1,000
CHRISTIAN WORLD OUTREACH$1,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY: $1k → 5%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $1k → 14%LOVING SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL SERVICES AND FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%THE SHINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
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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.

03Your 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
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
2
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
3
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
4
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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6
Onechild Global

One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.

International
7
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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8
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
9
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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10
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
11
World Hunger Relief Institute

World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.

International
12
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jpmorgan Chase 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%52%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr18%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr16%1%35–55yr18%98%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,957

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,223,021 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATIONNUMEROUS 502C-3S — $30,200 · OtherWESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherWESTWOOD CHURCH — $5,000 · Other+6 more — $6,000 · OtherTRINITY HOPE INC — $1,000 · InternationalKids Alive International Inc — $1,000 · InternationalBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC — $1,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $1,000 · InternationalSALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $1,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $1,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND — $1,000 · InternationalFAITH IN PRACTICE — $1,000 · InternationalWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED — $1,000 · InternationalGLOBUS RELIEF — $1,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $1,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS — $1,000 · InternationalAmigos For Christ Inc — $1,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesLOVING SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL SERVICES AND FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHINE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $1,000 · Human ServicesVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionMATTER — $1,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH WITH A MISSION GLEANINGS FOR THE HUNGRY — $1,000 · ReligionTHE PILGRIM CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION — $1,000 · ReligionHOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED — $1,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $100 · HealthCHRISTIAN WORLD OUTREACH — $1,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$1,223,021Other$46,200International$14,000Human Services$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Religion$2,000Health$1,100Employment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,223,021 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN WORLD OUTREACH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY HOPE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Alive International Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVING SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL SERVICES AND FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHINE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMATTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBUS RELIEF — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PILGRIM CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos For Christ Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $100 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.

Give Lively Foundatio…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Gift FundAndrew R & Dorothy L …Servant FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…The US Charitable Gif…McKesson Foundation I…The Minneapolis Found…Raymond James Charita…Shell USA Company Fou…
Give Lively Foundation IncNY17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Give Lively Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Gift Fund · Andrew R & Dorothy L Cochrane Foundation · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation

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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 36 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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