· Private foundation
Thomas and Patricia Pelger Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THOMAS AND PATRICIA PELGER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC | $75,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARISH | $46,100 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $32,000 |
| MIDTOWN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| PEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION | $28,521 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $27,600 |
| DANDELION HOUSE | $12,000 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PEORIA COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF PEORIA | $9,000 |
| CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE OHRA CENTER | $7,000 |
| ASHLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PPPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +25%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PEORIA COUNCIL3× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +155%
- SCSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES5× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN VIANEY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CDCOLEGIO DE STA RITA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ASAPOSTOLIC SISTERS OF SAINT JOHNone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justfaith Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caterpillar 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PEORIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DANDELION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN KIDS - UGANDA ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Caterpillar Foundation ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Chubb Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Thomas and Patricia Pelger Family Charitable 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.
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.