Illinois · Private foundation
Perry Family Charitable 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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,251,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Perry Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $3.1M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $3.1M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $3.4M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $2.9M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $962k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.4M | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep | $4,798,000 | 9 | 2% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $4,009,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $1,550,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $1,358,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Network | $1,313,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago | $1,195,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School | $1,158,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $547,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Clearbrook | $373,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $255,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($473k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Perry Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation · Big Shoulders Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Hulsebosch Hope Foundation · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Perry Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Perry Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Perry Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Perry Family Charitable Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $3,063,259 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Perry Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Human Services (7%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are Perry Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ($4.8M), University of Illinois Foundation ($4.0M), Loyola University of Chicago ($1.6M).
- Does Perry Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Perry Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Perry Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Dr Scholl Foundation, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy.
- Where is Perry Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Perry Family Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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