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Jean Perkins 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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$991,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 22
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$139M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Jean Perkins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving25$4.0M24%
FY202422$4.0M27%
FY202322$4.1M45%
FY202221$4.4M24%
FY202118$3.4M28%
FY202022$4.4Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$10MHealth$9.0MSocial Science$2.7MHuman Services$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$375kScience & Tech$300kYouth Development$250kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jean Perkins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,833,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Healthcare Foundation: $1,772,593 over 3y, 36% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $1,175,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute: $1,114,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Women Warriors: $1,000,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetHenry M Jackson Foundation: $848,122 over 3y, 81% of budgetThrive Scholars: $800,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSanta Catalina School: $600,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe L a Fire Department Scholarship Fund: $400,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $367,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Library Foundation of Los Angeles: $300,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWord of Honor Fund: $300,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTailhook Educational Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOne805 Inc: $120,575 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetThe Bandini Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-Ucla Medical Center: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChips Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRead to Lead Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Give an Hour Nonprofit Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 21.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Jean Perkins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jean Perkins 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 Jean Perkins Foundation

How much does Jean Perkins Foundation give?
Jean Perkins Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $5,022,130 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jean Perkins Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (35%), Social Science (11%).
Who are Jean Perkins Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($1.8M), St John's Healthcare Foundation ($1.8M), Harvey Mudd College ($1.2M).
Does Jean Perkins Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jean Perkins 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 Jean Perkins Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Jean Perkins Foundation based?
Jean Perkins Foundation is based in NV.

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 58 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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