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Perenchio Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
121
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

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
02FY2024 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k71 grants · $9.9M
  • $250k+44 grants · $33M
$191,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$696M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY$5,000,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES$3,500,000
PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA$3,174,000
INNER-CITY ARTS$975,000
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION$850,000
MOLAA$850,000
THE HARMONY PROJECT$850,000
LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES$850,000
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$850,000
PS ARTS$811,000
THE LA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC$800,000
AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE$760,000
A NOISE WITHIN$750,000
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER$746,000
WENDE MUSEUM$745,000
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 (FY22–24, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Urban Voices Project: $62k → 14%URBAN VOICES PROJECT: $62k → 14%URBAN VOICES PROJECT: $62k → 14%ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC: $295k → 14%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 91 repeat orgs$57M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
47

Total granted

$75M
$41M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+6%

Still filing today

87%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • GP
    GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $6.5M · revenue +9%
  • TP
    THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +109% · 28% of their budget
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Music Center of LA County
    one grant, 2020 · $10M
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10M · revenue +172%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5.5M · revenue +33%
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
5
Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.

Arts & Culture
6
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

See schedule otmc champions the arts in los angeles for all people. tmc connects the people of los angeles with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. tmc embraces patrons, visitors and community members from all…

Arts & Culture
7
Artronika

ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…

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8
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…

Arts & Culture
9
Jabberwocky Theatre Company

Rogue Machine Theatre was founded in 2008 as a performing arts organization to serve the greater Los Angeles community in developing and nurturing emerging playwrights, introducing important contemporary works to Southern California and…

Arts & Culture
10
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
11
Lawndale Art & Performance Center

Lawndale is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center that engages Houston communities with exhibitions and programs that explore the aesthetic, critical, and social issues of our time.See Schedule O for continuation.For over 40 years,…

Arts & Culture
12
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dance Downtown La Inc La Dance Project; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

134 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 134 of the 175 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/134
Grantees still filing
70/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $6,500,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INCTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $5,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $4,822,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INCLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $2,715,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $2,700,000 · Arts & Culture+93 more: $42,886,000 · Arts & Culture+93 moreThe Music Center of LA County: $10,000,000 · OtherThe Music Center of LA Count…Academy Foundation: $4,000,000 · OtherAcademy FoundationMOLAA: $2,550,000 · OtherMOLAAPS ARTS: $2,433,000 · OtherPS ARTS+53 more: $14,346,500 · Other+53 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $5,500,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA …FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $3,500,000 · EducationFOUNDATION …Harmony Project: $2,630,000 · EducationHarmony Pro…EVERYBODY DANCE LA: $1,055,000 · EducationEVERYBODY D…DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $700,000 · EducationSTREET POETS INC: $573,000 · Education+1 more: $60,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $689,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $11,000 · PhilanthropyLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $2,550,000 · Community ImprovementFILM2FUTURE: $288,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $875,000 · Membership Benefit
Arts & Culture$80,123,000Other$33,329,500Education$14,018,000Philanthropy$2,700,000Community Improvement$2,550,000Youth Development$938,000Membership Benefit$875,000

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 budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $6,500,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $5,500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $5,500,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $5,000,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $4,822,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $2,715,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $2,700,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHarmony Project: $2,630,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $2,550,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetPS ARTS: $2,433,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,238,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetICA LA: $1,558,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $1,543,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,465,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetMuseIque: $1,440,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $1,280,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $1,275,000 over 2y, 25% of budget18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX: $1,184,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC: $1,150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetLATINO THEATER COMPANY: $1,117,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $1,055,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetA Noise Within: $915,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER INC: $910,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $875,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $852,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $849,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetDIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE: $829,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC: $772,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC: $765,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $762,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $760,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetL A THEATRE WORKS: $754,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $745,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL: $723,000 over 3y, 26% of budget24th Street Theatre Company: $703,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $700,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetLong Beach Symphony Association: $690,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetGRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $689,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $642,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCASA 0101 INC: $635,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHE BRICK: $606,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetPLAZA DE LA RAZA INC: $596,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetArts for LA: $575,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSTREET POETS INC: $573,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHE THEATRE AT BOSTON COURT: $571,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $540,000 over 3y, 20% 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.

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 F…The Ahmanson Foundati…The J Paul Getty TrustCalifornia Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…Elbridge Stuart Found…Snap FoundationThe Green FoundationWeingart FoundationThe Meredith and Rose…The Wilhelm Family Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Perenchio Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perenchio Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    64report 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.

    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 175 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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