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Black-Periman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$456k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Black-Periman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$23k8%
FY202412$21k0%
FY202312$26k25%
FY202214$30k7%
FY202113$28k15%
FY202012$27k0%
FY201913$28k15%
FY201811$26k18%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$105kEducation$49kAnimals$27kPhilanthropy$18kCivil Rights$15kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
WY
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Natural Land Institute$46,00090%
Earthjustice$45,00090%
American Indian College Fund$37,00090%
Greater Good Charities$15,00030%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$14,50090%
Beloit College$10,00090%
Vidas$9,97242%
Teton Raptor Center$7,00090%
Jackson Hole Land Trust$4,50090%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$4,50060%
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All grantees of Black-Periman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Natural Land Institute$46,00090%
Earthjustice$45,00090%
American Indian College Fund$37,00090%
Greater Good Charities$15,00030%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$14,50090%
Beloit College$10,00090%
Vidas$9,97242%
Teton Raptor Center$7,00090%
Jackson Hole Land Trust$4,50090%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$4,50060%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$3,00020%
Molokai Humane Society$3,0001n/a
Rails to Trails Conservancy$2,50050%
Rocky Mountain Raptor Program$1,50030%
Gravel Road Society$1,3001n/a
The Actors Gymnasium Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Black-Periman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNatural Land Institute: $46,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetEarthjustice: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $37,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Good Charities: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBeloit College: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVidas: $9,972 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTeton Raptor Center: $7,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJackson Hole Land Trust: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGalapagos Conservancy Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Raptor Program: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors Gymnasium Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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How do I get to Black-Periman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Black-Periman 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.

About Black-Periman Foundation

How much does Black-Periman Foundation give?
Black-Periman Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $23,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Black-Periman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Education (21%), Animals (11%).
Who are Black-Periman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Natural Land Institute ($46k), Earthjustice ($45k), American Indian College Fund ($37k).
Does Black-Periman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Black-Periman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Black-Periman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Black-Periman Foundation based?
Black-Periman Foundation is based in IL.

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 26 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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