New York · Nonprofit
THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION
THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,000 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 393 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 393 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationshared funders
- George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090portfolio match
- French Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $100k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER 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
THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- French Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Italian American Foundationincportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M Holt Massey Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank & Victoria Rich Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greenly Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairmanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Elevator Constructorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION?
- THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,000 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $101,000 in grants to THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing