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Perceptics 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC | $10,496 |
| THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE | $7,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY KIDS CAFE | $7,000 |
| MAKE ROANOKE | $6,800 |
| RAVEN GAEL BLAISDELL FOUNDATION | $5,550 |
| CITYHOPE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $5,000 |
| HALLS HIGH SCHOOL PTO | $5,000 |
| MONETA ELEMENTARY PTA VA CONGRESS OF PARENTS & TEACHERS | $5,000 |
| STRAWBERRY PLAINS CHURCH | $4,950 |
| REDEMPTION CHRISTIAN CENTER | $4,800 |
| DEEPER STILL | $4,500 |
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $3,600 |
| ANDY'S SUMMER PLAYHOUSE | $3,200 |
| FOUNTAIN CITY RECREATION COMMISSION | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- COCityHope of New Hampshire5× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +173%
- EYEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $34k · revenue +94%
- ETEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- KHKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +39%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $23k
- BCBAT CAVE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $18k
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.
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Pregnancy testing, limited obstetrical ultrasounds, sti testing and treatment, and educational programs.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 144 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 KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CityHope of New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEARDEN BASEBALL DUGOUT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN CITY RECREATION COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DEEPER STILL ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CENTER SCHOOL PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds IBTTA 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: East Tennessee Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Siddiqi Charitable Foundation Formerly Fort Sanders Kidney Center · The Aslan Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · The Clayton Homes 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 Perceptics 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.
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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