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Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$8.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$12MEnvironment$5.1MHealth$3.3MEducation$3.2MHousing & Shelter$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MAnimals$833kCivil Rights$829kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+10 grants · $7.5M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Edmarc Inc$100,000
Hospice House of Hampton Roads$100,000
EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION$100,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AN ACHEIVABLE DREAM: $65k → 17%AN ACHEIVABLE DREAM: $25k → 17%AN ACHEIVABLE DREAM: $25k → 17%MERCY CHEFS: $10k → 20%AN ACHEIVABLE DREAM: $25k → 17%MERCY CHEFS: $5k → 20%ORPHANETWORK: $15k → 10%TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%Hospice House of Hampton Roads: $100k → 10%ORPHAN NETWORK: $20k → 10%ORPHAN NETWORK: $15k → 10%ORPHAN NETWORK: $15k → 10%ORPHAN NETWORK: $15k → 10%THE UP CENTER: $100k → 19%ORPHAN NETWORK: $15k → 10%THE UP CENTER: $100k → 19%THE UP CENTER: $100k → 19%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.
$27M · 48 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
23

Total granted

$27M
$527k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+51%

Still filing today

75%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • NB
    NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +27%
  • TV
    THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +113%
  • SH
    Samaritan House Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • UP
    UNC PHARMACY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • RA
    Randolph-Macon Academy
    one grant, 2017 · $83k · revenue +21%
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
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
3
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
4
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
6
Norfolk Collegiate School

To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.

Education
7
Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture
8
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
9
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
10
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
11
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
12
Vpm Media Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART: $5,408,237 · OtherCHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ARTNAUTICUS FOUNDATION: $866,667 · OtherNAUTICUS FOUNDATIONYoung America's Foundation: $829,120 · OtherYoung America's FoundationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY: $542,601 · OtherFAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDE: $413,334 · OtherUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $576,461 · Other+43 more: $3,221,949 · Other+43 moreTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $2,889,771 · Arts & CultureTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FEST…VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY: $1,086,803 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA STAGE COMPANYTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC: $1,047,010 · Arts & CultureTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INCVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $484,293 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCH…+5 more: $97,500 · Arts & CultureNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,387,034 · EnvironmentNORFOLK BOTANICA…The Elizabeth River Project: $800,002 · EnvironmentThe Elizabeth Ri…CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $935,000 · EducationCHESAPEAK…THE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $730,685 · EducationTHE NORFO…ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $447,186 · EducationACCESS CO…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $257,500 · EducationWOODBERRY…+4 more: $121,912 · EducationMercy Medical Angels: $900,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $646,880 · HealthTHE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthEDMARC INC: $100,000 · Health+2 more: $11,000 · HealthSamaritan House Inc: $1,153,791 · Housing & ShelterVANGUARD LANDING INC: $500,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterVIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $833,333 · Animals
Other$11,858,369Arts & Culture$5,605,377Environment$4,187,036Education$2,492,283Health$1,957,880Housing & Shelter$1,673,791Animals$833,333

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,387,034 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $2,889,771 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $1,153,791 over 6y, 13% of budgetVIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY: $1,086,803 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC: $1,047,010 over 5y, 22% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $935,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetMercy Medical Angels: $900,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNAUTICUS FOUNDATION: $866,667 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetVIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $833,333 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $829,120 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project: $800,002 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $730,685 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $646,880 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $576,461 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetVANGUARD LANDING INC: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $484,293 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $447,186 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $257,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUSINESS CONSORTIUM FOR ARTS SUPPORT: $205,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetMDRC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $140,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLIGHT OF THE WORLD CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEDMARC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Orphanetwork: $95,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $93,949 over 5y, 15% of budgetRandolph-Macon Academy: $82,912 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetD'ART CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMartin Memorial Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSLOVER LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 3.5% 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 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 LIGHT OF THE WORLD CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
  • Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 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.

Hampton Roads Communi…Townebank FoundationDominion Energy Chari…The Landmark Foundati…The Richard S Glasser…Tidewater Jewish Foun…United Way of South H…Sentara HealthThe Blocker FoundationGoode Family Foundati…Beazley Foundation In…Shearwater Foundation…
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA55.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report 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, 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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Find your warmest path to Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family 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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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