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Black-Periman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$6k
Largest
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 2025.

Environment$105kEducation$49kAnimals$27kPhilanthropy$18kCivil Rights$15kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE$6,000
EARTHJUSTICE$5,000
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF$2,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$1,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW POLICY CENTER OF$900
EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$500
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY$500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM$500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$500
TETON RAPTOR CENTER$500
JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST$500
BELOIT COLLEGE$500
GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EARTH JUSTICE: $5k → 10%MOLOKAI HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF: $2k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $3k → 18%BELOIT COLLEGE: $3k → 10%VIDAS: $4k → 3%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR CENTER: $1k → 11%GREATER FOOD CHARIRIES: $5k → 9%EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $6k → 15%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $1k → 5%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $3k → 18%BELOIT COLLEGE: $1k → 10%VIDAS: $3k → 3%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR CENTER: $1k → 11%GREATER FOOD CHARIRIES: $3k → 9%EVANSTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 6%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $1k → 5%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $2k → 18%VIDAS: $2k → 3%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $2k → 18%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $2k → 18%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%EARTH JUSTICE: $5k → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%EARTHJUSTICE: $5k → 10%NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%GRAVEL ROAD SOCIETY: $1k → 5%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

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IL
WI
NY
WY
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
AL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$226k · 19 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
5

Total granted

$226k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +82%
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +198%
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOLOKAI HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -33%
  • GR
    GRAVEL ROAD SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • HS
    HAVEN SCHOOL PTA
    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
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

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

International
4
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
5
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
9
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
10
Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals
11
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
12
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Vidas. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE: $46,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL LAND INSTITUTEEARTHJUSTICE: $45,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $4,500 · Environment+2 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentVIDAS: $9,972 · OtherVIDASGREATER FOOD CHARIRIES: $7,557 · OtherGREATER FOOD CHARIRIESTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $7,000 · OtherTETON RAPTOR CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $6,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR CENTER: $5,500 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR CEN…GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 · OtherGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INCMOLOKAI HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherMOLOKAI HUMANE SOCIETYEVANSTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,000 · OtherEVANSTON COMMUNITY CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD CARE: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $4,200 · Other+5 moreAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $37,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEG…BELOIT COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBELOIT COLLEGE+1 more: $500 · EducationGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $15,000 · PhilanthropyEvanston Community Foundation: $2,900 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $14,500 · Crime & LegalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 · Health
Environment$99,500Other$52,729Education$47,500Philanthropy$17,900Crime & Legal$14,500Health$3,000

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 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 budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $2,900 over 4y, 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
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.

  • Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VIDAS ↗
  • Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOLOKAI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS GYMNASIUM INC ↗

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.

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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 Black-Periman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black-Periman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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