· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k83 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $402k
- $250k+1 grant · $595k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $594,650 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC | $201,700 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATI | $50,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORECEMENT FOUNDA | $50,000 |
| NISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| SFASU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $41,000 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| SFA FOUNDATION | $31,400 |
| CONCERNED BLACK MEN OF NACOGDOCHES | $31,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $25,000 |
| COUNTY ROADS RESCUE | $25,000 |
| AVONDALE HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SMITH COUNTY PETS ALIVE | $15,000 |
| EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $13,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
119 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TJTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +46%
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2025 · $576k · revenue +129%
- BHBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC8× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +286%
Funded once
- TJTYLER JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $139k · revenue +25% · 56% of their budget
- BFBLEXIT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $35k
- TVTHE VOLUNTEER COUNCIL FOR THE RHS Ione grant, 2024 · $27k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The association exists to advance the science of jurisprudence; to facilitate and improve the administration of justice; to maintain and to elevate standards of professional conduct; to increase professional skills through regular…
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 278 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TYLER JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Avondale House Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COUNTY ROADS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BOY SCOUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Institute for a Secure America Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James I Perkins Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.