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Joseph Perini Memorial 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.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$193kHealth$152kHousing & Shelter$144kFood & Nutrition$117kReligion$23kRecreation & Sports$21kArts & Culture$10kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE$8,000
NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS$8,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$6,400
ROSIE'S PLACE$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
A PLACE TO TURN$5,500
NATICK OPEN DOOR$5,400
NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC$5,400
THE DRAKE HOUSE$5,100
TEAM MAGGIE FOR A CURE INC$5,100
WINDRUSH FARMS$5,000
TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MICHAEL CARTER LISNOW RESPITE CENTER$5,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,000
FANNIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION$4,800
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $8k → 16%FANNIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $6k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%FEED FANNIN: $6k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 7%FANNIN COUNTY EMPTY STOCKING PROGRAM: $6k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 7%FANNIN COUNTY EMPTY STOCKING PROGRAM: $5k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 7%FEED FANNIN: $5k → 11%FANNIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $5k → 11%FANNIN COUNTY EMPTY STOCKING PROGRAM: $5k → 11%FANNIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $5k → 11%FANNIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $5k → 11%FEED FANNIN: $5k → 11%FEED FANNIN: $5k → 11%FANNIN COUNTY EMPTY STOCKING PROGRAM: $5k → 11%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $5k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $5k → 16%NATICK OPEN DOOR: $8k → 8%NATICK OPEN DOOR: $8k → 8%NATICK OPEN DOOR: $8k → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $5k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $4k → 16%NATICK OPEN DOOR: $6k → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $2k → 16%NATICK OPEN DOOR: $6k → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $6k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $6k → 16%NATICK OPEN DOOR: $5k → 8%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$668k · 34 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
8

Total granted

$668k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%
  • AP
    A Place To Turn Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +106%
  • WL
    WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • PINE STREET INN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +36%
  • RJ
    RAYMOND J CALLAHAN SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - DISASTER RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

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2
Fisher House of Boston Inc

To provide and coordinate lodging for our active military, veteran, and retired military families being treated at hospitals in the boston area.

Health
3
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Cambridge Homes
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5
Pine Street Inn Housing Ii Inc

Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…

Housing & Shelter
6
Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc

Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.

Human Services
7
Nantucket Community Service Ii Inc

Provide low income elderly housing

Housing & Shelter
8
Plymouth Taskforce to End Homelessness I

To provide shelter for the homeless

Housing & Shelter
9
Holliston Pantry Shelfinc

Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.

Employment
10
The Farmington Home for Aged People
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11
Tarry House Inc

Tarry House operates group homes to provide shelter, food and,services to adults with severe mental disorders

Unclassified
12
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc

To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $41,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANSA Place To Turn Inc: $37,500 · OtherA Place To Turn IncWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $35,800 · OtherWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION FBO VNA OF CAPE COD HOSPICE: $32,800 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION FBO VNA OF CAPE COD HOSPICEIndividual grant recipient: $30,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWINDRUSH FARMS: $28,000 · OtherWINDRUSH FARMSCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $26,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONMICHAEL CARTER LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $25,200 · OtherMICHAEL CARTER LISNOW RESPITE CENTERThe Anderson Foundation: $13,450 · OtherTEAM SIX BOOSTERS: $13,400 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $13,000 · Other+17 more: $73,100 · Other+17 moreNATICKS OPEN DOOR INC: $42,200 · Human ServicesNATICKS OPEN DOOR INCROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesROGERSON COMMUNITIES INCFannin County Family Connection Inc: $20,400 · Human ServicesFannin County Family Conne…FEED FANNIN INC: $20,400 · Human ServicesFEED FANNIN INCFANNIN CTY EMPTY STOCKING PGM INC: $20,400 · Human ServicesFANNIN CTY EMPTY STOCKING …Tommy's Place Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTommy's Place Foundation I…THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDER…PINE STREET INN INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFranciscan Hospital for Children: $27,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $20,200 · HealthTeam Maggie for a Cure Inc: $8,200 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthROSIE'S PLACE INC: $38,600 · Housing & ShelterThe Drake House Inc: $8,200 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $34,400 · Community ImprovementNorth Falmouth Village Association Inc: $7,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $15,800 · Public BenefitCuttyhunk Historical Society Inc: $9,700 · Arts & Culture
Other$369,750Human Services$164,400Health$55,900Housing & Shelter$54,800Community Improvement$41,400Public Benefit$15,800Arts & Culture$9,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATICKS OPEN DOOR INC: $42,200 over 6y, 59% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $38,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $35,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $34,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFannin County Family Connection Inc: $20,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFEED FANNIN INC: $20,400 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFANNIN CTY EMPTY STOCKING PGM INC: $20,400 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $20,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $15,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Anderson Foundation: $13,450 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCuttyhunk Historical Society Inc: $9,700 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTeam Maggie for a Cure Inc: $8,200 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $8,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Falmouth Village Association Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetNORTH FALMOUTH ELEMENTARY PTO: $6,700 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CENTER OF WALTHAM INC: $4,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE 200 FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALS ONE INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds NATICKS OPEN DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
  • Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Fannin County Family Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEED FANNIN INC ↗
  • Who funds FANNIN CTY EMPTY STOCKING PGM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Anderson Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds Team Maggie for a Cure Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Drake House Inc ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds North Falmouth Village Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FALMOUTH ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CENTER OF WALTHAM INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Community Foundation …MutualOne Charitable …Yawkey Foundation IIMiddlesex Savings Cha…Cambridge Savings Cha…Joy In Childhood Foun…Cummings Foundation G…Arbella Insurance Fou…Amica Companies Found…Verizon FoundationAbbVie Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Verizon Foundation · AbbVie 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph Perini Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Perini Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Programs for People Inc: 59% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Community Day Center of Waltham Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Joseph Perini Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph Perini Memorial 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.

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 47 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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