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Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MCommunity Improvement$95kHealth$85kAnimals$61kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAV$4,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIDGE: $15k → 12%BRIDGE: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $42k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $40k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $16k → 12%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 26 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
23

Total granted

$1.5M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+22%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • JP
    JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $618k · revenue +43%
  • COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $98k · revenue +35%
  • AO
    ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $77k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • FT
    FOR THE MANY
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +37%
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
Boston Ballet Inc

The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…

Arts & Culture
2
Bristol Riverside Theatre Co Inc

To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
4
Berkshire Dance Theatre Inc

The organization is dedicated to providing the highest quality dance and performing arts education. the joy, confidence and mutual respect our students gain enhance their communities and continue to guide them throughout their lives.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Baroque Inc

The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.

Arts & Culture
6
Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc

Worcester center for performing arts promotes and/or hosts more than 250 performances and welcomes more than 150,000 attendees each year. the hanover theatre conservatory reaches more than 700 students in theatre, technical theatre and…

Arts & Culture
7
Berkshire Opera Festival Inc

Entertain and enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the berkshire region by providing accessible and affordable performances of a broad range of operas with the highest artistic standards.

Arts & Culture
8
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
The Adams Theater Presents Inc

Create a sustainable performing arts institution that fosters community engagement through a diverse range of programming

Arts & Culture
11
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
12
Berks Arts Council

The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Pulse Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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

31 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. 31 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $618,274 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC: $77,054 · Arts & CultureANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INCMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $68,898 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $53,740 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC+9 more: $75,190 · Arts & Culture+9 moreSHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $95,084 · OtherSHAKESPEARE COMPANYIndividual grant recipient: $56,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…CATA: $54,400 · OtherCATAIndividual grant recipient: $20,756 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…BAV: $18,326 · OtherNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA: $14,000 · OtherFOR THE MANY: $12,500 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $24,950 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATI…MOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION DBA NATIONAL CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE: $24,000 · OtherMOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION…CONSTRUCT INC: $13,500 · Other+19 more: $40,865 · Other+19 moreCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $97,634 · Human ServicesBERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesBedlam Inc: $63,750 · PhilanthropyBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $57,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $60,500 · AnimalsBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $31,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$893,156Other$374,381Human Services$122,634Philanthropy$100,750Health$62,500Animals$60,500Education$31,000

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 budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $618,274 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $97,634 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC: $77,054 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $68,898 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBedlam Inc: $63,750 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $60,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $57,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $53,740 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $27,650 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $24,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION DBA NATIONAL CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE: $24,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $13,200 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWAM THEATRE INC: $11,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHESTER THEATRE COMPANY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $4,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGABLESTAGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget18 DEGREES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE PULSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $660 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHancock Shaker Village Inc: $95 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…The Feigenbaum Founda…Lee Bank Foundation I…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Buchwald Family F…Dr Robert C & Tina So…The Dobbins Foundatio…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Jewish Communal FundPrice Chopper's Golub…Josephine and Louise …Berkshire United Way …
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA42.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc

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 Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Construct Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chester Theatre Company Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hancock Shaker Village Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Pulse Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc 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 50 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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