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Margaret Perenchio 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$714kPublic Benefit$289kEducation$273kHealth$145kEnvironment$75kArts & Culture$71kHuman Services$44kReligion$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$124k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Spay 4 LA$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WE CARE FOR KIDS INC: $19k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LA INC: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LA INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 19 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$1.3M
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+31%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $303k · revenue +46%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $289k · revenue +190%
  • OS
    OPERATION SMILE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +103%
  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
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Global Animal Partnership
Animals
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Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
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Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
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Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals
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American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
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The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
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600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.

Animals
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Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project

For Education, Safety, Protection, Recovery, and Prevention From Cruelty for All Cetaceans Especially Dolphins

Animals
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California City Animal Outreach Foundation

The foundation supports the california city animal shelter and community companion animals. our dedicated goals of extended rescue and adoption lifelines, spay and neuter promotion. education awareness and quality of life improvements will…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Farrah Fawcett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Veteran Support ServicesWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Christian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,537

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.

04the grantee network

26 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 40 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Humane World for Animals Inc — $303,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncLast Chance for Animals — $96,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $60,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INCSPAY4LA INC — $50,000 · AnimalsSPAY4LA INCEastwood Ranch Foundation — $35,000 · AnimalsEastwood Ranch FoundationCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $25,000 · Animals+4 more — $40,000 · Animals+4 moreTURNING POINT USA INC — $289,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUCLA HEALTH — $20,000 · OtherTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $25,250 · OtherCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+15 more — $127,700 · Other+15 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $241,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FO…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationSOCIAL COMPASSION — $110,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL COM…NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $50,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK R…OPERATION SMILE INC — $100,000 · InternationalTHE HISTORIC ITALIAN HALL FOUNDATION — $29,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWE CARE FOR KIDS INC — $19,400 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $15,000 · Human Services
Animals$609,000Other$551,950Education$267,500Environment$160,000International$100,000Arts & Culture$49,000Human Services$34,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $303,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $289,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $241,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL COMPASSION — $110,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $96,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPAY4LA INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetEastwood Ranch Foundation — $35,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HISTORIC ITALIAN HALL FOUNDATION — $29,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $25,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE CARE FOR KIDS INC — $19,400 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNBCC FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals International — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWags and Walks — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITWEEK — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Brunson FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brunson Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Margaret Perenchio 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.

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no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Margaret Perenchio Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret Perenchio 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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