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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.

$90k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
64%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,496
Organizations funded a year
14 to 36
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$40k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Perceptics Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsReligionEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$90k54%
FY202422$110k64%
FY202314$76k57%
FY202218$93k44%
FY202116$56k56%
FY202024$51k50%
FY201919$61k58%
FY201836$142k67%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$117kHuman Services$106kEducation$94kArts & Culture$92kRecreation & Sports$65kHealth$61kHousing & Shelter$51kYouth Development$47kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
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NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 85 grantees
All grantees of Perceptics Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Knoxville Habitat for Humanity Inc$40,00011%
CityHope of New Hampshire$39,40058%
Emerald Youth Foundation$33,95040%
Live and Let Live Farm Inc$24,22840%
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc$21,20040%
Maryville High School Athletic Booster Board$20,00048%
Bearden Baseball Dugout Club Inc$20,0004n/a
Habitat for Humanity in the Roanoke Valley Inc$9,00010%
Tns Christmas Fund$8,4502n/a
Disciple Support Ministries Inc$8,31821%
Pedal It Out$7,8001n/a
The Rescue Mission of Roanoke Inc$7,0001n/a
Make Roanoke$6,8001n/a
Embrace Relief Foundation Inc$6,71020%
Fountain City Recreation Commission Inc$6,00022%
Russel Hill Cancer Foundation Inc$6,00021%
Deeper Still$5,40020%
Healing Hands International Inc$5,10020%
Oak Ridge Community Playhouse$5,0001n/a
Ibtta Foundation$5,00013%
Knowhow Knoxville$5,0001n/a
Wears Valley Ranch Inc$5,00010%
New Center School Parent Advisory Council Inc$5,000128%
Nashua Children's Home$4,99510%
Keep Knoxville Beautiful Inc$4,80011%
Homes of Love Inc$4,50040%
Nourish Knoxville Inc$4,50012%
Pca Reformed University Ministries$3,6001n/a
Lake Christian Ministries Inc$3,60010%
End 68 Hours of Hunger$3,60010%
Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus$3,3002n/a
Knoxville Family Justice Center$3,22521%
Andys Summer Playhouse Inc$3,2001n/a
Pittsfield Youth Workshop Inc$3,15030%
Seeed Inc$3,00010%
A Soldiers Child Inc$3,00010%
Happy Paws Kitten Rescue$3,0001n/a
Support the Enlisted Project Inc$3,00010%
Humane Society of Roane County Inc$3,0001n/a
Boy Scouts of America 330 Daniel Webster Council Inc$2,85020%
Northfield Economic Development Corporation$2,5501n/a
McLean High School Athletic Boosters$2,40011%
Widowed Parent Relief Project$2,25021%
Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama$2,00030%
Young-Williams Animal Center of East Ten$1,65020%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,50010%
Cap and Gown Project$1,50011%
Angel Tree Incorporated$1,5001n/a
Felines Inc$1,50020%
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc$1,50010%
Blount County Humane Society$1,20011%
Habitat for Humanity Anderson County$1,05010%
Harris Center for Conservation Education Inc$90020%
Focused Ministries$75010%
Downtown Rescue Mission Inc$75010%
Crotched Mountain Foundation$75010%
Blue Star Mothers of New Hampshire Chapter$7501n/a
Al Lotts Elementary PTO$6601n/a
River and Rail Theatre Company$60010%
Nami New Hampshire$60010%
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$60010%
Knoxville Christian School$60020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$60010%
Tennessee Children's Home Inc$60010%
Donorschooseorg$50510%
Special Olympics New Hampshire Inc$38020%
Humane World for Animals Inc$37520%
North Alabama Korean School$3751n/a
Nh Patriot Guard Riders Inc$3001n/a
Turningpoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Inc$30010%
Samaritan's Purse$30010%
OneWorld Health$22510%
Farragut Baseball Inc$22510%
Beloved Asheville$18010%
Tiger Haven Inc$15910%
The Equity Alliance$15010%
The 410 Bridge Inc$15010%
Free Software Foundation Inc$15010%
Tirzah International$1501n/a
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn$15010%
New York Public Radio$15010%
Legal Aid of East Tennessee$15010%
Do Good Initiative Inc$1501n/a
The Arizona Animal Welfare League$1501n/a
The Boston Police Foundation Inc$751n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($389k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Perceptics Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKnoxville Habitat for Humanity Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCityHope of New Hampshire: $39,400 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetEmerald Youth Foundation: $33,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLive and Let Live Farm Inc: $24,228 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEast Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc: $21,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville High School Athletic Booster Board: $20,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity in the Roanoke Valley Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDisciple Support Ministries Inc: $8,318 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEmbrace Relief Foundation Inc: $6,710 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFountain City Recreation Commission Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRussel Hill Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDeeper Still: $5,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHealing Hands International Inc: $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIbtta Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWears Valley Ranch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Center School Parent Advisory Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNashua Children's Home: $4,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeep Knoxville Beautiful Inc: $4,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHomes of Love Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNourish Knoxville Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLake Christian Ministries Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEnd 68 Hours of Hunger: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKnoxville Family Justice Center: $3,225 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPittsfield Youth Workshop Inc: $3,150 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSeeed Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Soldiers Child Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSupport the Enlisted Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 330 Daniel Webster Council Inc: $2,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMcLean High School Athletic Boosters: $2,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWidowed Parent Relief Project: $2,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of North Alabama: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung-Williams Animal Center of East Ten: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCap and Gown Project: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFelines Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlount County Humane Society: $1,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Anderson County: $1,050 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHarris Center for Conservation Education Inc: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFocused Ministries: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDowntown Rescue Mission Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver and Rail Theatre Company: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNami New Hampshire: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS Naval Academy Foundation Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnoxville Christian School: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Children's Home Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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.

East Tennessee FoundationTN26.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Perceptics Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Perceptics 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.

About Perceptics Foundation

How much does Perceptics Foundation give?
Perceptics Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $89,889 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Perceptics Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (15%), Human Services (13%), Education (12%).
Who are Perceptics Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Knoxville Habitat for Humanity Inc ($40k), CityHope of New Hampshire ($39k), Emerald Youth Foundation ($34k).
Does Perceptics Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Perceptics Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Perceptics Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee.
Where is Perceptics Foundation based?
Perceptics Foundation is based in TN.

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 144 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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