How much does Perenchio Foundation give?

Perenchio Foundation reported 121 grants totaling $43,513,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 108 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Perenchio Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Education (11%), International (2%).

Who are Perenchio Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($10M), Geffen Playhouse Inc ($6.5M), The American Film Institute ($5.5M).

Does Perenchio Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Perenchio 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 Perenchio Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The J Paul Getty Trust.

Where is Perenchio Foundation based?

Perenchio Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Perenchio 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.

$44M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 121
Grants FY2024: 108
Organizations funded FY2023: 40%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $191,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $5,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 108; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $696M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Perenchio Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	121	$44M	30%
FY2023	108	$28M	40%
FY2022	76	$21M	97%
FY2021	13	$5.7M	100%
FY2020	8	$34M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$111MEducation$14MInternational$2.5MYouth Development$2.1MPhilanthropy$2.0MMembership Benefit$875kPublic Benefit$376kHuman Services$295kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$10,000,000	1	11%
Geffen Playhouse Inc	$6,500,000	3	18%
The American Film Institute	$5,500,000	1	18%
California State University Fresno Foundation	$5,500,000	1	7%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery	$5,000,000	1	3%
The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc	$4,822,000	3	28%
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges	$3,500,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$2,715,000	3	12%
Japanese American National Museum	$2,700,000	3	10%
Harmony Project	$2,630,000	3	14%

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All grantees of Perenchio Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$10,000,000	1	11%
Geffen Playhouse Inc	$6,500,000	3	18%
The American Film Institute	$5,500,000	1	18%
California State University Fresno Foundation	$5,500,000	1	7%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery	$5,000,000	1	3%
The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc	$4,822,000	3	28%
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges	$3,500,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$2,715,000	3	12%
Japanese American National Museum	$2,700,000	3	10%
Harmony Project	$2,630,000	3	14%
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes	$2,550,000	3	21%
Ps Arts	$2,433,000	3	19%
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center	$2,238,000	3	17%
Ica La	$1,558,000	3	16%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc	$1,543,000	3	19%
Armory Center for the Arts	$1,465,000	3	21%
MuseIque	$1,440,000	3	13%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$1,280,000	3	14%
Inner-City Arts	$1,275,000	2	25%
18th Street Arts Complex	$1,184,000	3	18%
East-West Players Inc	$1,150,000	3	26%
Latino Theater Company	$1,117,000	3	10%
Everybody Dance La	$1,055,000	3	23%
A Noise Within	$915,000	2	18%
Angels Gate Cultural Center Inc	$910,000	3	26%
The Actors' Fund of America	$875,000	3	1%
Craft Contemporary	$852,000	3	22%
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles	$849,000	3	13%
Diavolo Dance Theatre	$829,000	3	34%
Actor's Gang Inc	$772,000	2	19%
Inner City Youth Orchrstra of Los Angeles Inc	$765,000	3	14%
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company	$762,000	3	21%
American Cinematheque	$760,000	1	7%
L a Theatre Works	$754,000	3	17%
The Wende Museum of the Cold War Inc	$745,000	1	2%
Los Angeles Music and Art School	$723,000	3	26%
24th Street Theatre Company	$703,000	3	21%
Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy	$700,000	1	10%
Long Beach Symphony Association	$690,000	2	17%
Grand Vision Foundation	$689,000	3	16%
Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation	$642,000	2	29%
Casa 0101 Inc	$635,000	3	27%
The Brick	$606,000	3	16%
Plaza de la Raza Inc	$596,000	3	18%
Arts for LA	$575,000	3	18%
Street Poets Inc	$573,000	3	9%
The Theatre at Boston Court	$571,000	2	19%
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Inc	$540,000	3	20%
Vincent Price Art Foundation	$537,000	3	31%
Bob Baker Marionette Theater	$535,000	2	10%
Los Angeles Nomadic Division	$530,000	3	24%
Neighborhood Music School Association	$513,000	3	25%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc	$500,000	2	1%
Long Beach Opera	$500,000	2	22%
Musicares Foundation Inc	$500,000	1	2%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles	$500,000	1	1%
Art Division	$452,000	3	24%
Future Roots Inc	$450,000	2	21%
Young Musicians Foundation	$442,500	2	22%
Vidiots Foundation	$400,000	1	11%
Highways Inc	$397,000	3	45%
Ebell of Los Angeles	$385,000	1	3%
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA	$372,500	2	24%
Pacific Opera Project	$365,000	2	23%
Body Traffic	$365,000	2	20%
Art Share Los Angeles	$362,000	2	23%
Clockshop	$360,000	3	23%
Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles	$348,000	3	9%
Fulcrum Arts	$333,000	3	5%
Visual Communications Media	$315,000	2	13%
Los Angeles Performance Practice	$309,000	3	19%
Street Symphony Project Inc	$309,000	3	27%
Dance Downtown la Inc la Dance Project	$300,000	1	11%
Pasadena Conservatory of Music	$300,000	1	6%
Arts and Services for Disabled Inc Dba Able Arts Work	$295,000	1	6%
The Industry Productions Inc	$290,000	2	18%
Heidi Duckler Dance	$288,000	2	21%
Film2future	$288,000	3	17%
The Independent Shakespeare Co Inc	$288,000	2	15%
Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association	$283,000	3	18%
Autry Museum of the American West	$280,000	1	2%
Will Geers Theatricum Botanicum	$275,000	1	16%
Venice Arts	$265,000	2	11%
Contra-Tiempo	$253,000	2	21%
Versa-Style Dance Company	$249,000	3	9%
Beyond Baroque Foundation	$240,000	3	15%
Lineage Performing Arts Center	$231,000	3	33%
Theatre of Hearts Inc	$228,000	3	15%
International City Theatre	$210,500	2	15%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor	$200,000	1	1%
Deaf West Theatre Company Inc	$198,000	3	11%
Las Fotos Project	$196,000	1	n/a
Grand Performances	$192,000	1	8%
La Commons	$188,000	1	n/a
Urban Voices Project	$186,000	3	12%
Side Street Projects	$186,000	2	29%
Dramatic Results	$175,000	1	8%
1111 a Creative Collective	$174,000	3	33%
Floricanto Dance Theatre	$170,000	3	34%
World Stage Performance Gallery	$165,000	3	24%
Corita Art Center Inc	$160,000	1	24%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$150,000	1	2%
Blue 13 Dance Company Inc	$150,000	1	27%
Sierra Madre Playhouse	$150,000	1	11%
Young Storytellers	$150,000	1	9%
Invertigo Dance Theatre	$145,000	1	17%
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art	$135,000	1	18%
American Museum of Ceramic Art	$130,000	1	8%
Red Hen Press Inc	$116,000	1	10%
Piece by Piece	$115,000	2	7%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles	$100,000	1	1%
Descanso Gardens Foundation	$100,000	1	1%
Artlab21 Foundation Esmoa	$100,000	1	26%
Taikoproject	$95,000	1	15%
Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach	$90,000	1	3%
The Garry Marshall Theatre	$85,000	1	9%
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation	$80,000	1	1%
The Leela Institute	$80,000	1	24%
New Music USA Inc	$65,000	1	3%
The Boys & Girls Club of Burbank and Greater East Valley Inc	$60,000	1	1%
Variety Boys & Girls Club	$50,000	1	2%
Piano Spheres	$50,000	1	40%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach	$50,000	1	1%
Echo Park Film Center	$50,000	1	33%
Musyca	$43,000	1	8%
Rogue Artists Ensemble	$38,000	1	20%
Navel la Co	$37,500	1	10%
Da Center for the Arts	$35,000	1	7%
Meztli Projects Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Dream a World Education Inc	$28,000	1	6%
Angel City Chorale	$25,000	1	3%
Coaxial Arts Foundation	$25,000	1	16%
Los Angeles Children's Chorus	$25,000	1	1%
American Association of Museums	$20,000	1	0%
The Ryman-Carroll Foundation	$11,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($26M), not named here.

Perenchio Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 131.

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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.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA121.4× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Snap Foundation · The Green Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm

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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About Perenchio Foundation

How much does Perenchio Foundation give?: Perenchio Foundation reported 121 grants totaling $43,513,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 108 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Perenchio Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Education (11%), International (2%).
Who are Perenchio Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($10M), Geffen Playhouse Inc ($6.5M), The American Film Institute ($5.5M).
Does Perenchio Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Perenchio 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 Perenchio Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The J Paul Getty Trust.
Where is Perenchio Foundation based?: Perenchio Foundation is based in CA.