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The Petit Family Foundation at a glance

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The Petit 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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$120kRecreation & Sports$50kReligion$40kHealth$35kInternational$35kYouth Development$32kHuman Services$30kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$85,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$771k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$85,000
ROSWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%TURNING POINT: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of The Petit Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 53%.

The Petit Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 4 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$90k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+69%

Still filing today

75%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IF
    IDEALS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • H
    HINRI
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue -37%
  • LO
    Living on the Edge Ministries Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • PB
    PEACH BOWL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • GH
    GLOBAL HOPE
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • SO
    Spirit of America Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +67%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
2
Georgia Tech Global Inc

To engage in charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes and to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of georgia institute of technology (git) and to support its…

Education
3
Georgia Tech Foundation Funding Corporation

To assist the georgia tech foundation in the acquisition of real estate or other projects for the support of the georgia tech institute of technology

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4
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc

The university of georgia research foundation (research foundation) is organized to fulfill broad scientific, literary, educational, and charitable purposes and operates to enhance the mission of the university of georgia (university) of…

Education
5
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
6
Georgia Tech Research Corporation

The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.

Health
7
Georgia State University Athletic Association Inc

To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance and promote athletics at georgia state university.

—
8
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
9
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education
10
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
11
Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mila's Miracle Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Georgia State University Foundation Inc: $85,000 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation In…IDEALS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationIDEALS FOUNDATION INCGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationGLOBAL HOPE: $35,000 · OtherGLOBAL HOPEROSWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherROSWELL PRESBYTERIA…TURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA I…PEACH BOWL INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPEACH BOWL INCHINRI: $25,000 · HealthHINRIMILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMILA'S MIRA…Spirit of America Foundation: $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentSpirit of …Turning Point Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesTurning P…HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHELPING H…Living on the Edge Ministries Inc: $20,000 · ReligionGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$120,000Other$60,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Health$35,000Youth Development$32,000Human Services$30,000Religion$20,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACH BOWL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpirit of America Foundation: $32,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIDEALS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHINRI: $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Petit Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Petit Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Petit Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Petit Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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