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The Robert K and Evelyn D Pedersen Family Fdn Inc at a glance

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The Robert K and Evelyn D Pedersen Family Fdn Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$334k
Granted FY2018
33
Grants FY2018
10
States reached
$315k
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 2018.

Philanthropy$316kHealth$7kEducation$5kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$3kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2018 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k32 grants · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT K AND EVELYN D PEDERSEN FAMI$315,479
THE COLLEGE OF IDAHO$1,000
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH$1,000
IDAHO FOOD BANK$1,000
BOISE RESCUE MISSION$1,000
NAMATI$600
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MUSIC$500
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT FOUNDATION$500
UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE$500
UTAH HUMANE SOCIETY$500
NCCPA HEALTH FOUNDATION$500
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FND$500
MALIHEH FREE CLINIC$500
IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY$500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLORENCE IMMIGRANT REFUGEE RIGHTS: $500 → 11%ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FND: $500 → 7%UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $500 → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BOISE: $500 → 8%IDAHO FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%JDRF INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 17%PRATT INSTITUTE: $500 → 20%JAMESON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $500 → 19%PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $500 → 8%NCCPA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WA SCHOOL OF FISH: $500 → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BOISE: $500 → 8%IDAHO FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%PRATT INSTITUTE: $500 → 20%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $500 → 8%NCCPA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%SOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WA SCHOOL OF FISH: $500 → 9%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 → 8%NAMATI: $600 → 14%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%LEARNING LAB: $500 → 8%350ORG: $500 → 14%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%LEARNING LAB: $500 → 8%NAMATI: $500 → 14%MALIHEH FREE CLINIC: $500 → 8%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 → 8%NPR FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%MALIHEH FREE CLINIC: $500 → 8%THE COLLEGE OF IDAHO: $1k → 8%350ORG: $500 → 14%UTAH HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 8%THE COLLEGE OF IDAHO: $1k → 8%NPR FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%ROBERT K AND EVELYN D PEDERSEN FAMI: $315k → 8%IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 8%FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH: $2k → 8%IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 8%FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH: $1k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 8%HOPE CLINIC INC: $500 → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 8%UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%SENIOR SOLUTIONS INC: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
OK
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29k · 22 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
4

Total granted

$29k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+62%

Still filing today

68%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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
    IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    The College of Idaho Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +66%
  • NI
    NAMATI INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +62%
  • SS
    SENIOR SOLUTIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
3
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
6
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
7
Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech
8
My Green Lab

My green lab's mission is to build a culture of sustainability in science to transform the industry into a global leader on environmental sustainability. through education, community engagement, and leading-edge certification programs, we…

Environment
9
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit
12
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Youth Ranch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Jameson Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT K AND EVELYN D PEDERSEN FAMI: $315,479 · OtherROBERT K AND EVELYN D PEDERSEN FAMI+21 more: $19,000 · Other+21 moreNCCPA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationThe College of Idaho Inc: $2,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTE: $1,000 · EducationRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc: $1,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 · HealthHope Clinic Inc: $500 · Health350ORG: $1,000 · EnvironmentSOLAR ENERGY INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $1,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 · EnvironmentIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $2,000 · Food & NutritionNAMATI INC: $1,100 · Crime & LegalIdaho Humane Society Inc: $1,000 · Animals
Other$334,479Education$6,000Health$3,500Environment$3,500Food & Nutrition$2,000Crime & Legal$1,100Animals$1,000

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 budgetNCCPA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMATI INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH ARTS ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Clinic Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $500 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.

Idaho Power Foundatio…Idaho Community Found…First Interstate Banc…Synchrony FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Network for Good
Idaho Power Foundation IncID13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Robert K and Evelyn D Pedersen Family Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert K and Evelyn D Pedersen Family Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

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    How do I get to The Robert K and Evelyn D Pedersen Family Fdn Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert K and Evelyn D Pedersen Family Fdn Inc 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 37 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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