Texas · Private foundation
James I Perkins Family Foundation
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 101
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $594,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 81
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations James I Perkins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 100 | $1.5M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $2.1M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $627k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $850k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $548k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $894k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $818k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Junior College Foundation | $2,124,313 | 8 | 10% |
| Tyler Junior College | $1,044,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Mentoring Alliance | $576,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Grace Community School | $439,250 | 8 | n/a |
| Bethesda Health Clinic | $232,400 | 8 | 1% |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tyler Junior Golf Foundation | $139,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Avondale House Inc | $127,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem | $115,352 | 6 | 1% |
| Texas State History Museum Foundation | $110,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 161 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James I Perkins Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Julietta Jarvis Foundation Inc · Anderson-Vukelja Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · Bg Byars Foundation
How this is measured
About James I Perkins Family Foundation
- How much does James I Perkins Family Foundation give?
- James I Perkins Family Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $1,483,731 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James I Perkins Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Health (12%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are James I Perkins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tyler Junior College Foundation ($2.1M), Tyler Junior College ($1.0M), Mentoring Alliance ($576k).
- Does James I Perkins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James I Perkins Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James I Perkins Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Texas Communities Foundation, A S Genecov Foundation, Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation.
- Where is James I Perkins Family Foundation based?
- James I Perkins Family Foundation is based in TX.
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