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Matthew Perry Foundation

Drawing inspiration from matthew's life, the foundation is committed to raising awareness and fostering understanding about the nature of addiction and working to dismantle the barriers of stigma that prevent people from seeking and receiving care.

$555k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$175,000
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$50,000
ANGELS AT RISK$40,000
STITIKE COUNSELING CENTER$25,000
CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER$25,000
AMAAD INSTITUTE$25,000
SHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE$25,000
VOICES OF RECOVER SAN MATEO COUNTY$20,000
CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE$20,000
THE WALL LAS MEMORIAS$20,000
PUEBLO Y SALUD$20,000
THE SOURCE LGBT CENTER$20,000
AMERICAN INDIAN CHILD RESOURCES$15,000
UPPER ROOM REHABILITATION SERVICES$15,000
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OLD BALDY POST 2085$15,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $175k → 16%STITIKE COUNSELING CENTER: $25k → 7%VOICES OF RECOVER SAN MATEO COUNTY: $20k → 8%MICHAEL LEONARDI FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%CONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OLD BALDY POST 2085: $15k → 14%SHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE: $25k → 14%AMAAD INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%MARIPOSA HERITAGE HOUSE: $10k → 15%THE SOURCE LGBT CENTER: $20k → 18%UPPER ROOM REHABILITATION SERVICES: $15k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN CHILD RESOURCES: $15k → 10%PUEBLO Y SALUD: $20k → 14%ANGELS AT RISK: $40k → 14%PALMDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE: $20k → 14%THE WALL LAS MEMORIAS: $20k → 14%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 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
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
2
Alianza of New Mexico

Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.

Human Services
3
Union of Pan Asian Communities

To improve the general well-being and education of the asian, pacific islander and other ethnic communities of san diego county. upac recognizes the diverse ethnic and cultural identities and strengths of these communities and their need…

Human Services
4
Construyendo Circules De Paz- Constructing Circles of Peace

To offer innovative treatment options that contribute to ending the cycle of abuse for individuals, families and communities

Human Services
5
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

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6
Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Inc

The lcada way's mission is: to transform individual lives, families and communities suffering from alcohol, substance abuse and behavioral health issues. the lcada way's vision is: to develop the lcada way as a center of clinical…

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7
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Our Vision is to enhance the educational and economic well-being of the people we serve by means of direct human services, advocacy, and referrals.Our Mission is to save lives, unite families, and protect the community through addiction…

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8
Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona

The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…

Health
9
Community Human Services

Community human services is a nonprofit agency dedicated to providing high quality mental health, substance use and homeless services to monterey county residents to help them reach their full potantial.

Health
10
Aids Service Center of Lower Manhattan Inc

Aids service center of lower manhattan, inc., d/b/a alliance for positive change ("alliance") is a not-for-profit community organization founded in 1990 with a central mission of helping low-income new yorkers living with hiv and other…

Health
11
On the Front Lines Community Alliance

Help People with rehab for Drug & alchol

Health
12
Latino Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services

The Latino Commission provides a multitude of services throughout the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Tulare. The Organization currently employs twelve programs eight for adults, and four for youth and transitional age youth…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Y Salud Inc Co Ruben Rodriguez; the most unlike its peers is Palmdale Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
1/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $175,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDSITIKE COUNSELING CENTER: $25,000 · OtherSITIKE COUNSELING CENTERCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 · OtherCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTERPUEBLO Y SALUD INC CO RUBEN RODRIGUEZ: $20,000 · OtherPUEBLO Y SALUD INC CO RUBEN RODRIGUEZVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · OtherTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF UKIAH: $15,000 · OtherUPPER ROOM REHABILITATION SERVICES: $15,000 · OtherPARENT 2 PARENT STRATEGIES: $10,000 · OtherALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONANGELS AT RISK: $40,000 · HealthANGELS AT RISKSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE: $25,000 · HealthSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLETHE AMAAD INSTITUTE: $25,000 · HealthTHE AMAAD INSTITUTEWALL-LAS MEMORIAS PROJECT: $20,000 · HealthWALL-LAS MEMORIAS PROJECTVoices of Recovery San Mateo County: $20,000 · HealthVoices of Recovery San Mateo CountyMICHAEL LEONARDI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAlliance for Community Transformations: $10,000 · HealthCHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE SOURCE LGBT CENTER INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsPALMDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$300,000Health$200,000Crime & Legal$20,000Civil Rights$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANGELS AT RISK: $40,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSITIKE COUNSELING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE AMAAD INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALL-LAS MEMORIAS PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVoices of Recovery San Mateo County: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SOURCE LGBT CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPUEBLO Y SALUD INC CO RUBEN RODRIGUEZ: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAlliance for Community Transformations: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALMDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…California Community …Public Health Institu…The California Endowm…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Public Health Institute · The California Endowment · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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