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Perks Family Foundation at a glance

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Perks Family 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.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$381kRecreation & Sports$200kCommunity Improvement$100kHuman Services$86kEducation$85kPhilanthropy$28kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rockford Park District Foundation$136,000
FARMLINK PROJECT$5,000
ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY$3,000
YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC$3,000
San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Syndicate$2,000
West Texas Boys Ranch 10223 Boys Ranch Rd$1,000
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FARMLINK PROJECT: $5k → 14%FARMLINK PROJECT: $5k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$857k · 8 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$857k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RP
    ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $366k · revenue +24%
  • RU
    ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +5%
  • SA
    SAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO SYNDICATE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -23%
  • GL
    GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +226%
  • CL
    CARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +8%
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
Rockford Promise

Vision statement: enhance economic vitality in the rockford region by providing access to post-secondary education for all rockford public school graduates. - mission statement: remove financial barriers by offering full-tuition…

Education
2
The Rockford Institute

To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…

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3
Rockford Community Investment Fund

To support housing and community development ventures

Community Improvement
4
The Workforce Connection Inc

The mission of the workforce connection board is to create a competitive, skilled and educated workforce by providing a system for individuals to gain meaningful employment responsive to the needs of business.

Employment
5
Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives

The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region

Community Improvement
6
Rockford Woodlawn Fund Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Rockford Area Community Endowment

Rockford area community endowment is a local foundation committed to assisting rockford area residents, businesses, government and volunteer organizations to expand opportunities locally. race was founded in 1964.

Philanthropy
8
Rockford Christian Education Association

To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others

Education
9
Rockford Area Economic Development Council Inc

The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region

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10
Rockford Day Nursery

It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.

Human Services
11
United Rocks
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12
Rockford Sharefest

Rockford sharefest exists to identify, develop and lead projects that empower and release volunteers and donors to use their god-given gifts, abilities and resources to make an impact for the common good. rockford sharefest is bringing…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford University; the most unlike its peers is Transform Rockford. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $366,000 · EnvironmentROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION+2 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT: $180,000 · OtherROCKFORD PARK DISTRICTInternational Women's Baseball Center: $100,000 · OtherInternational Women's Baseball Cent…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherTRANSFORM ROCKFORD: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSFORM ROC…CARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $6,000 · Community ImprovementCARRIE LYNN C…ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationROCKFORD UN…YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationYERKES FUTU…UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $20,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $8,000 · PhilanthropyFARMLINK PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO SYNDICATE: $8,000 · Youth Development
Environment$381,000Other$281,000Community Improvement$106,000Education$93,000Philanthropy$28,000Human Services$10,000Youth Development$8,000

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 budgetROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $366,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTRANSFORM ROCKFORD: $100,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetROCKFORD UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO SYNDICATE: $8,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOTTONWOOD INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Enterprise Holdings F…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Perks Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Perks Family 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 14 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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