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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $991,000 |
| ST JOHN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $604,500 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL DR BRIAN EDLOW | $325,055 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $325,000 |
| SANFORD-BURNHAM MEDICAL RESEARCH | $300,000 |
| USC EYE INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $300,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS | $200,000 |
| HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| BANDINI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LA FIRE DEPT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $100,000 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| WORD OF HONOR FUND | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Jean Perkins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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; $591k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +27%
- SJST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +42% · 36% of their budget
- HMHarvey Mudd College6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TSThe Stamford Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +17%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $368k · revenue -81%
- SJST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2021 · $265k
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.
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.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE L A FIRE DEPARTMENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds Tailhook Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE805 INC ↗
- Who funds THE BANDINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jean Perkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean Perkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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