· Private foundation
Perrin 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 $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HOPE | $43,334 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $29,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LIGGETT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCES OF ASSIAI | $20,140 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $20,000 |
| TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $2,500 |
| DIOCESE OF DES MOINES | $1,000 |
| URBAN BICYCLE FOOD MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| UNITED FEDERATION OF DOLL CLUBS | $500 |
| ST PETER VIETNAMESE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $307k · revenue +28%- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA5× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue -20%
- SFST FRANCES OF ASSIAI5× · 2021–2025 · $100k
Funded once
- SFST FRANCES OF ASSISIone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +42%
- DMDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +55%
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.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Founded in 1973, dove lewis emergency animal hospital, inc. (dovelewis) is one of the premier veterinary medical service organizations in the us and the only 24/7 not-for-profit animal emergency, critical care, and specialty hospital in…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
To transform lives and strengthen communities through partnerships with custom trained working dogs.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Christian Schools and the most unlike its peers is Des Moines Golf and Country Club Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 35 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 UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Paws New England ↗
- Who funds COST OF FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Reigning Grace Ranch ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STRANDS OF STRENGTH INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds AMES PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · American Endowment Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Perrin 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.