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Perkins Hunter 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
73
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$7.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Perkins Hunter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving71$1.2M73%
FY202417$374k24%
FY202316$626k56%
FY202215$553k47%
FY202111$635k36%
FY202023$465k65%
FY201915$665k60%
FY201821$536kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$1.8MPhilanthropy$767kEducation$708kYouth Development$455kHealth$421kHuman Services$260kPublic Benefit$239kEnvironment$193kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tipping Point Community$1,710,00081%
Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward$375,000411%
San Francisco University High School$190,00020%
Caremessage$145,00061%
San Francisco Education Fund$110,10022%
Remake$100,00027%
The Battery Foundation$95,00051%
Population Media Center Inc$90,00021%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$90,00041%
Teach for America Inc$87,65030%
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All grantees of Perkins Hunter Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tipping Point Community$1,710,00081%
Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward$375,000411%
San Francisco University High School$190,00020%
Caremessage$145,00061%
San Francisco Education Fund$110,10022%
Remake$100,00027%
The Battery Foundation$95,00051%
Population Media Center Inc$90,00021%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$90,00041%
Teach for America Inc$87,65030%
La Luz Center$85,00021%
Voteorg$80,00021%
Technoserve Inc$50,00020%
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation$50,00022%
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation$50,0001n/a
Greenlight Fund Inc$50,00020%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$45,00020%
San Francisco Symphony$35,00020%
Turnout Activism Inc$35,00021%
Voto Latino Inc$35,00020%
Sonoma County Vintners$35,00012%
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation$33,00020%
American Conservatory Theatre Foundation$30,00040%
Media Matters for America$25,0001n/a
Muso Inc$25,0001n/a
Bay Education Fund$25,00010%
Accountability Counsel$25,00011%
Emerge Global$25,0001n/a
Voter Registration Project$25,00010%
The Voter Participation Center$25,00010%
Respond Now$25,00021%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20,00020%
Greenlight America$20,00020%
Safe & Sound$20,00020%
Hinsdale Humane Society$20,00011%
Engenderhealth Inc$20,00010%
The Thacher School Inc$20,00010%
Child Welfare Innovation Inc$20,00020%
Sonoma Valley Authors Festival$17,50023%
Environmental Voter Project Inc$17,00011%
America Votes$15,00010%
Feel Good Action$15,0001n/a
Up 2 US Foundation$15,0002n/a
Westcoast Children's Clinic$12,00020%
The Wilkes Bashford Helping HandsEF$10,0001n/a
The Basic Fund$10,00010%
Schools That Can$10,00011%
Accelerate Change Inc$10,0001n/a
Hamilton Families$10,00010%
San Francisco Parent Coalition$10,00012%
Ideoorg$10,00010%
Meto Inc$10,00011%
Southern Coalition for Social Justice$10,00010%
That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation$10,00010%
Common Sense Media$10,00010%
World Monuments Fund Inc$10,00010%
Connected SF$10,0001n/a
Foundation for Social Impact$10,00010%
Sonoma Conservatory of Dance$8,0001n/a
California Interfaith Power & Light$8,0001n/a
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art$7,50020%
Ten Strands$7,00010%
All Americans Vote$7,00010%
San Francisco Beautiful$5,00012%
Seacology$5,0001n/a
Justice at Last Inc$5,0001n/a
End of Life Choices New York Inc$5,00011%
CalMatters$5,00010%
La Casa de las Madres$5,00010%
Saint Francis Foundation$5,00010%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$2,50010%
CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse$2,50010%
City Youth Now Fka Volunteer Auxiliary Youth Guidance Center of San Francisco$2,50011%
Sonoma Plein Air Foundation$2,0001n/a
Asha Rising$2,00016%
Value Culture$2,0001n/a
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$1,10010%
Marines' Memorial Association$1,00010%
The Cold War Museum$1,0001n/a
San Francisco Village$1,0001n/a
Friends of the River Foundation$1,0001n/a
Camping and Education Foundation$1,0001n/a
Olympic Club Foundation$5001n/a
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($752k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Perkins Hunter Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTipping Point Community: $1,710,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFreedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward: $375,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSan Francisco University High School: $190,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCaremessage: $145,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $110,100 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRemake: $100,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetThe Battery Foundation: $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPopulation Media Center Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGreenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space: $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $87,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLa Luz Center: $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVoteorg: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTechnoserve Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGreenlight Fund Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Symphony: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurnout Activism Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVoto Latino Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma County Vintners: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSan Francisco General Hospital Foundation: $33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Conservatory Theatre Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBay Education Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAccountability Counsel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVoter Registration Project: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Voter Participation Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRespond Now: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenlight America: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSafe & Sound: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHinsdale Humane Society: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEngenderhealth Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild Welfare Innovation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma Valley Authors Festival: $17,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetEnvironmental Voter Project Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerica Votes: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestcoast Children's Clinic: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Basic Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSchools That Can: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHamilton Families: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Parent Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetIdeoorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeto Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouthern Coalition for Social Justice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Sense Media: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $10,000 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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The Chicago Community…McNabb FoundationImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…Tides FoundationSonoma County Communi…Swig FoundationGordon E and Betty I …
The San Francisco FoundationCA51.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · McNabb Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Swig Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore 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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About Perkins Hunter Foundation

How much does Perkins Hunter Foundation give?
Perkins Hunter Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $1,205,430 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Perkins Hunter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (33%), Philanthropy (14%), Education (13%).
Who are Perkins Hunter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Tipping Point Community ($1.7M), Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward ($375k), San Francisco University High School ($190k).
Does Perkins Hunter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Perkins Hunter 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 Perkins Hunter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
Where is Perkins Hunter Foundation based?
Perkins Hunter Foundation is based in IL.

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 126 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home