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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.

$7.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$41MYouth Development$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$123kRecreation & Sports$70kPhilanthropy$31kHealth$15kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.8M
$120,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP$300,000
KIPP ST LOUIS$300,000
CHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUN$300,000
NEW PARADIGM FOR EDUCATION$300,000
KIPP CHICAGO$300,000
CARDINAL STRITCH FOUNDATION$282,979
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$240,000
UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS$240,000
ST MARCUS SCHOOL$240,000
INTERGENERATIONAL SCHOOL$240,000
OAKS ACADEMY$240,000
KIPP INDIANAPOLIS$240,000
ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS$240,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%PAWSPERITY: $4k → 15%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $240k → 17%RESPOND NOW: $15k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $180k → 17%RESPOND NOW: $15k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 17%RESPOND NOW: $10k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 17%RESPOND NOW: $10k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 17%RESPOND NOW: $10k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 17%RESPOND NOW: $10k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
MO
TN
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 79 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
18

Total granted

$44M
$635k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

43%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MS
    MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +32%
  • KS
    KIPP ST LOUIS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +133%
  • NP
    New Paradigm for Education Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARCUS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • AM
    AVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY INC D/B/A UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLISgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +67%
  • DS
    DC SCHOLARS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +26%
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
Chicago Collegiate Inc

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.

Education
2
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
3
Center City Public Charter Schools

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.

Education
4
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
5
Academy of the City Charter School

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.

Education
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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7
Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter

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.

Education
8
Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter School

Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.

Education
9
Chicago Education Partnership

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…

Education
10
Chester Charter Scholars Academy

Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.

Education
11
Compass Charter School

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…

Education
12
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,655,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKIPP CHICAGO: $1,935,000 · OtherKIPP CHICAGOKIPP ST LOUIS: $1,540,000 · OtherKIPP ST LOUISST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1,517,350 · OtherST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOLNOTRE DAME DE CHICAGO: $1,280,838 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1,050,000 · OtherCHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL FO: $985,000 · Other+52 more: $14,155,236 · Other+52 moreFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $3,550,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,910,000 · EducationMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INCNew Paradigm for Education Inc: $1,520,000 · EducationNew Paradigm for Education IncTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $1,245,000 · EducationTindley Accelerated Schools IncKipp Indianapolis Inc: $1,020,000 · EducationKipp Indianapolis IncERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $720,000 · EducationThe Intergenerational School: $680,000 · EducationPOLARIS CHARTER ACADEMY: $660,000 · EducationDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $645,000 · EducationNAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $640,000 · EducationThe Oaks Academy Inc: $640,000 · EducationYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $585,000 · EducationSaint Martin de Porres High School: $575,000 · Education+16 more: $2,484,250 · Education+16 moreUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,020,000 · Human ServicesRESPOND NOW: $70,000 · Human Services+2 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $11,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyI AM ACADEMY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementROCK THE VOTE: $5,000 · Civil RightsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$26,118,424Education$16,874,250Human Services$1,099,000Philanthropy$21,000Youth Development$15,000Community Improvement$10,000Civil Rights$5,000Health$5,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $3,550,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,910,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $1,540,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNew Paradigm for Education Inc: $1,520,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $1,245,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetKipp Indianapolis Inc: $1,020,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,020,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $720,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $720,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Intergenerational School: $680,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetPOLARIS CHARTER ACADEMY: $660,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $645,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetNAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $640,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc: $640,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $585,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $585,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $575,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $480,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSchools That Can: $276,250 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetDC SCHOLARS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $270,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetTREY WHITFIELD SCHOOL: $255,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $225,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $210,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC: $210,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BETTER LEARNING: $195,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY INC D/B/A UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC: $95,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDC SCHOLARS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHORNTON ALUMNI LEGACY FUND: $90,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $77,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $77,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRESPOND NOW: $70,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSME EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe City School: $45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP: $37,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDESTINATION EDUCATION: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPROVIDENCE ENGLEWOOD CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI AM ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Intergenerational School ↗
  • Who funds POLARIS CHARTER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗

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 Chicago Community…Arzbaecher Family Fou…Weiss Family Foundati…Anon Charitable Trust50can IncThe Lynde and Harry B…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Herbert H Kohl Charit…The Indianapolis Foun…Pwc Foundation IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…Lilly Endowment Inc
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 98 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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