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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 FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$1.8MPhilanthropy$767kEducation$708kYouth Development$455kHealth$421kHuman Services$260kPublic Benefit$239kEnvironment$193kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $722k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOO$125,000
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY$125,000
LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER$65,000
SAN FRANCISCO EDUCATIONAL FUND$60,000
TECHNOSERVE$40,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA-BAY AREA$35,000
KQED NORTHERN CA PUBLIC RADIO$35,000
POPULATION MEDIA CENTER$35,000
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL$30,000
BELIEVE IN SF ACTION$30,000
BATTERY FOUNDATION$30,000
ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL$25,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$25,000
TURNOUT ACTIVISM$25,000
EMERGE GLOBAL$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $3k → 10%RESPOND NOW: $15k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $10k → 14%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $65k → 9%FOSTER AMERICA: $10k → 16%FOSTER AMERICA: $10k → 16%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $20k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $1k → 10%REMAKE: $75k → 10%REMAKE: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 39 repeat orgs$960k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
30

Total granted

$4.1M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+11%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • FF
    Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward
    4× · 2019–2023 · $375k · revenue +827%
  • C
    CAREMESSAGE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +112%
  • SF
    San Francisco Education Fund
    2× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • DR
    DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUN
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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12
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) connects people, ideas and resources to ensure equity and opportunity for all.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Asha Rising. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Food PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%54%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,889

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.

04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
42/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $1,710,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITYTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $95,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $175,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreSAN FRANCISCO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $105,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO EDUCATIONAL FUN…YOUTH WELLNESS CENTER — $70,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $55,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $55,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUN — $50,000 · OtherTECHNOSERVE INC — $50,000 · OtherSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $50,000 · Other+74 more — $945,830 · Other+74 moreSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $190,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO U…CAREMESSAGE — $145,000 · EducationCAREMESSAGESan Francisco Education Fund — $110,100 · EducationSan Francisco E…POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $90,000 · EducationPOPULATION MEDI…Teach for America Inc — $87,650 · EducationTeach for Ameri…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…+7 more — $110,000 · Education+7 moreFreedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward — $375,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,000 · Crime & LegalRemake — $100,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTER — $85,000 · Human ServicesRESPOND NOW — $25,000 · Human ServicesChild Welfare Innovation Inc — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $90,000 · EnvironmentACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL — $25,000 · EnvironmentGREENLIGHT AMERICA — $20,000 · EnvironmentFeel Good Action — $15,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $15,000 · EnvironmentCalifornia Interfaith Power & Light — $8,000 · EnvironmentTen Strands — $7,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentVOTEORG — $80,000 · Civil RightsTURNOUT ACTIVISM INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $25,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsAll Americans Vote — $7,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $12,500 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$2,380,000Other$1,431,330Education$777,750Crime & Legal$385,000Human Services$233,500Environment$185,000Civil Rights$169,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $1,710,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS — $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $35,000 over 3y, 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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESPOND NOW — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChild Welfare Innovation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Social Impact — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIDEOORG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Perkins Hunter 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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