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Perkins Malo 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS | $500,000 |
| CHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUN | $300,000 |
| KIPP CHICAGO | $300,000 |
| MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP | $300,000 |
| NEW PARADIGM FOR EDUCATION | $300,000 |
| KIPP ST LOUIS | $300,000 |
| CARDINAL STRITCH FOUNDATION | $282,979 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $240,000 |
| ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $240,000 |
| INTERGENERATIONAL SCHOOL | $240,000 |
| CATALYST CHARTER SCHOOLS CHICAGO | $240,000 |
| KIPP INDIANAPOLIS | $240,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $240,000 |
| OAKS ACADEMY | $240,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
- KSKIPP ST LOUIS7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +133%
- NPNew Paradigm for Education Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SMST MARCUS MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $150k
- AMAVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY INC D/B/A UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLISgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +67%
- DSDC SCHOLARS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Academy of the city provides its students with the rigorous and student-centered education, values and tools needed to succeed at the highest levels. we are committed to being an inclusive, equitable and joyful community.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.
Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.
To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…
Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is Holy Family Ministries. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 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. 50 of the 98 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds New Paradigm for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Intergenerational School ↗
- Who funds POLARIS CHARTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Arzbaecher Family Foundation · Weiss Family Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · 50can Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc
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 Malo 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.
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.
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