· Private foundation
Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+10 grants · $7.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $2,785,800 |
| NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,478,275 |
| VIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $833,333 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $575,000 |
| HURRAH PLAYERS | $411,794 |
| NAUTICUS | $358,333 |
| MERCY MEDICAL ANGELS | $300,000 |
| Chesapeake Bay Academy | $250,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VANGUARD LANDING INC | $250,000 |
| FAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDE | $246,667 |
| ACCESS College Foundation | $200,000 |
| EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Edmarc Inc | $100,000 |
| Hospice House of Hampton Roads | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $683k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NBNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC3× · 2021–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +27%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +113%
- SHSamaritan House Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- UPUNC PHARMACY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- RARandolph-Macon Academyone grant, 2017 · $83k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Glass Art Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 78 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds NAUTICUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS CONSORTIUM FOR ARTS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF THE WORLD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · The Blocker Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Shearwater Foundation Inc
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 Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family 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.
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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