New York · Nonprofit
PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION
PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,040 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $1.2B
What Peter G Peterson Foundation does
Programs
Foundation activities - see statement 18 for overview grants and grant-makingthe foundation provides grants to fund a variety of projects and organizations that advance its mission. Grantees include research organizations, foundations, universities, associations, and other not-for-profit entities that engage in activities outlined under grant agreements with the foundation. These grants support a range of education, engagement, research projects and initiatives related to the nation's long-term fiscal outlook, healthcare performance and functioning democracy. A complete listing of our paid grants in fiscal year 2025 can be found in part xiv.
$35,434,870 spentEducation, awareness, and engagementthe foundation's education, awareness, and engagement initiatives seek to improve americans' understanding of and participation in supporting fiscal sustainability and economic resiliency, healthcare efficiency and an effective democracy for the next generation. The foundation produces information on various policy topics for the general public; connects a range of audiences with non-partisan resources and information; and issues policy research briefs and statements around key milestones. The foundation enables broad discourse regarding its core program areas through its websites and social media.
$10,176,006 spentPolicy, research and analysisthe foundation produces non-partisan research, analyses, and other data-driven information to help make complex fiscal, healthcare, and economic issues more understandable to the public, the media, policymakers and other stakeholders. The foundation's research and analyses are incorporated into its education, awareness, and engagement activities, and are made accessible through multiple channels, including the foundation's websites, public communications, and social media.
$6,540,420 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.0B to $1.1B (+8%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Michael A Peterson
Director, chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION?
- PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,040 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $200,040 in grants to PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing