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Perona Farms Foundation

THE FOUNDATION HOLDS FUNDRAISING EVENTS AND DONATES THE PROCEEDS TO LOCAL CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION IN THE CULINARY INDUSTRY 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU$10,000
PATRIOT'S PATH COUNCIL$5,000
PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY$4,000
THE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF SUSSEX COUN$3,000
SCARC FOUNDATION INC$2,375
PROVIDENT CHARITIES INC$2,070
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,500
FATHER JOHN'S ANIMAL HOUSE$1,500
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,500
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,400
KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI$850
SCARC FOUNDATIONINC$750
ANDOVER TWP FOP LODGE 177$500
SCCC FOUNDATION$500
SUSSEX COUNTY PBA LOCAL 138$200
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FATHER JOHN'S ANIMAL HOUSE: $2k → 6%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 6%KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI: $850 → 6%PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $4k → 6%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 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.

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Karen Ann Quinlan Charitable Foundation Inc

The organization receives and solicits donations from the public and other section 501(c)(3) organizations and distributes such funds to a related section 501(c)(3) organization which provides hospice and related care to members of the…

Philanthropy
2
Family Promise of Sussex County Inc

To secure housing stability and sustainability for those in crisis, because everyone deserves a home.

Human Services
3
Scarc Guardianship Services Inc

To serve as lifelong guardians and advocates for people with developmental disabilities who cannot acquire needed services independently. (continued on schedule o)we will work with persons with developmental disabilities, their families,…

Recreation & Sports
4
Corporation for New Jersey Local Media

We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
5
Monmouth Park Charity Fund Inc

Raising of funds for distribution to monmouth county nj charities.

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6
Sussex County Farm and Horse Show Association Inc

The association's exempt purposes are to conduct the sussex county farm and horse show (also known as the new jersey state fair), bring attention to sussex county, new jersey through community participation, encourage leadership,…

Recreation & Sports
7
Somerset Community Action Program Inc

Somerset community action program, inc. (scap) is a non-for-profit organization provide early childhood education programs, financial literacy, community planning and nutritional support to residents of somerset county.

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8
New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association Inc

The organization was established to promote, advance, and improve, financially and otherwise, the welfare, working conditions, and other interests of police and law enforcement officers through out the state of new jersey.

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9
Samaritan Inn Inc

To provide emergency food and temporary shelter to homeless families in sussex county as well as a program of counseling and skill building in family maintenance and growth. its core values are service, social justice, competence, and…

Housing & Shelter
10
Parsippany Soccer Club Inc

Parsippany soccer club, inc.'s mission is to develop, promote, and govern the game of soccer within the township of parsippany-troy hills, new jersey.

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11
County College of Morris Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic gifts for the benefit of the college, its students and the community.

Education
12
New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers

To promote the professional engineers of new jersey.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sussex County Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Father Johns Animal House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPATRIOT'S PATH COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherPATRIOT'S PATH COUNCILNEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,400 · OtherNEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $3,000 · OtherCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC+4 more: $1,900 · Other+4 morePROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF …SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $2,375 · Human ServicesSCARC FOUNDATION INCFATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE: $1,500 · Human ServicesFATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSEKAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $850 · Human ServicesKAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL F…PROVIDENT CHARITIES INC: $2,070 · PhilanthropySussex County PBA Local #138 Inc: $200 · Membership Benefit
Other$24,300Human Services$8,725Philanthropy$2,070Membership Benefit$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCARC FOUNDATION INC: $2,375 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Perona Farms Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Perona Farms 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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