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Peery 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2020
40
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Peery Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Peery Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 34 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

29
’19
34
’20
2
’21
4
’22
3
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$6.0MReligion$618kEducation$596kInternational$578kCrime & Legal$518kEmployment$500kHealth$377kHuman Services$221kOther$0
02FY2020 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k22 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH$200,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC$200,000
STARVISTA$100,000
SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
AMAL ACADEMY INC$100,000
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC$100,000
FRIENDS OFRAISING THE VILLAGE INCORPORATED$100,000
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$100,000
STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL$100,000
ILEAP$78,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC$52,500
COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH$50,000
ILEAP$32,500
CANOPY$20,000
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WEIRA INC: $10k → 6%STARVISTA: $100k → 7%DNA DOE PROJECT: $5k → 9%STARVISTA: $50k → 7%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%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

VT
WA
NY
OR
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 31% of Peery Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Peery Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 19 repeat orgs$820k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$5.9M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+59%

Still filing today

84%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalAnimalsOther

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

  • CL
    Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $353k · revenue +5%
  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $300k · revenue +114%
  • FO
    Friends Of Raising The Village Incorporated
    2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +572%

Funded once

  • NI
    NAMATI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +637%
  • LI
    LABORATORIA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -31%
  • TM
    TREK MEDICS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +59%

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.

1
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
4
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
5
Challenge Success

Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.

Education
6
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education
10
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
11
Ffwd

FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.

Philanthropy
12
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Bay Area Schools and the most unlike its peers is Smile & Olive 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,508

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.

05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DESERET TRUST CO — $3,596,938 · OtherDESERET TRUST CO+30 more — $568,350 · Other+30 morePHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $2,854,719 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATIONFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated — $200,000 · PhilanthropyFriends Of Raising The Village Incorp…+5 more — $154,780 · PhilanthropyEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $300,000 · EducationSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL — $200,000 · EducationILEAP — $110,500 · EducationASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $50,550 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · Education+8 more — $18,300 · EducationCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $352,500 · Crime & LegalNAMATI INC — $150,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $15,000 · Crime & LegalAMAL ACADEMY INC — $200,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $200,000 · EmploymentCOUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH — $350,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthStarVista — $150,000 · Human ServicesSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $100,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWeira Inc — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $5,600 · Human Services
Other$4,165,288Philanthropy$3,209,499Education$709,350Crime & Legal$517,500Employment$400,000Health$351,000Human Services$275,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $2,854,719 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $352,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCOUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH — $350,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated — $200,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetAMAL ACADEMY INC — $200,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStarVista — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNAMATI INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetILEAP — $110,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS US INC — $100,500 over 2y, 39% of budgetLAPACHO FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetLABORATORIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $50,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanopy — $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN ENVELOPE FUND — $40,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMID-PENINSULA EDUCATION CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArts Corps — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMUTTVILLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS — $7,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDNA DOE PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO JUNIOR MUSEUM & ZOO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARMEL RIVER WATERSHED CONSERVANCY — $2,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFRICAN SOUP INC — $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Five — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHack the Hood Inc — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqualize Health Formerly D-Rev — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream Catchers Inc — $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOMA PROJECT INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSO INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducate — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION — $550 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Philanthropic Venture…The Palo Alto Communi…Gordon E and Betty I …The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Embarcadero Media Fou…Atkinson FoundationTides FoundationJohn and Marcia Goldm…The Sobrato Family Fo…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA39.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Tides Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · The Sobrato Family 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 Peery 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Peery Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peery 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 64 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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