· Private foundation
Perpetual Kindness 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Manhattan School for Music | $28,450 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $12,500 |
| WNET 13 | $12,500 |
| Morehouse School of Medicine | $12,500 |
| Einstein College of Medicine (New PKF Fund) | $12,500 |
| Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative NA | $12,500 |
| University of Virgin Islands | $10,000 |
| Riverkeeper Inc | $10,000 |
| Save the Sound | $10,000 |
| Brandeis University | $8,300 |
| Save the Sound | $7,500 |
| Barnard College | $7,242 |
| Dollar For | $5,000 |
| Riverkeeper Inc | $5,000 |
| Namaste Foundation aka Namaste Direct | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC2× · 2024–2025 · $53k · revenue +10%
- RIRIVERKEEPER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +31%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- USUngroup Societyone grant, 2023 · $8k
- CTCity Tech Foundationone grant, 2023 · $8k
- SSkidmoreone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAMASTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOLLAR FOR ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISSION318 ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Perpetual Kindness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perpetual Kindness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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