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Perry Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15MHuman Services$1.3MFood & Nutrition$549kHealth$473kReligion$244kArts & Culture$215kCrime & Legal$127kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $870k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$1,251,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$715,000
CRISTO REY NETWORK$150,000
CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE PREP$125,000
CATHOLIC EXTENSION$125,000
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY$100,000
PHI KAPPA PSI FOUNDATION$100,000
CLEARBROOK$85,000
CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL$80,000
COME TO BELIEVE NETWORK$55,000
THE ONE PLAN SAINTS JFX$50,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$27,500
EVAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$25,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$25,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYRIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $500 → 15%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $250 → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%THE CHASING HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE CHASING HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%1916 FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $259 → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS INC: $1k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $1k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS INC: $1k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS INC: $1k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $250 → 14%THE WELL OF MERCY: $1k → 14%THE WELL OF MERCY: $1k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $180k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $85k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $21k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $14k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $13k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $12k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $10k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $10k → 14%NEXT STEPS NFP: $5k → 14%MADONNA MISSION: $1k → 14%MADONNA MISSION: $1k → 14%MADONNA MISSION: $1k → 14%MADONNA MISSION: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 58 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
58

Total granted

$18M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+0%

Still filing today

57%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +127%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +39%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY NETWORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • T1
    THE 1916 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • MP
    MIDWEST PROVINCE JESUITS
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
2
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
3
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
4
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
5
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
6
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
10
Chicago State Foundation

The mission of Chicago State Foundation is to advance the interest and welfare of CSU by building relationships, securing philanthropic support, stewarding assets and otherwise procuring private support on behalf of the University. Working…

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Go Green Winnetka. 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

63 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. 63 of the 128 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
39/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $4,798,000 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College PrepUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $4,009,750 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1,550,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOCRISTO REY NETWORK: $1,313,000 · EducationCRISTO REY NETWORK+12 more: $569,850 · EducationCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $1,358,500 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $1,195,000 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Archdio…CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,158,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PR…CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMER: $547,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY…CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY: $255,000 · Other+72 more: $962,894 · Other+72 moreCLEARBROOK: $373,500 · Human Services+11 more: $33,005 · Human ServicesThe People's Music School: $205,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $6,250 · Arts & CultureAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $78,000 · HealthMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $5,060 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,750 · Health+9 more: $4,903 · HealthTHE 1916 FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MORGANTE WILSON FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsILLINOIS PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Education$12,240,600Other$5,476,894Human Services$406,505Arts & Culture$211,250Health$91,713Philanthropy$17,500Recreation & Sports$13,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $4,798,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $4,009,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1,550,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $1,313,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $1,195,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCLEARBROOK: $373,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY: $237,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetThe People's Music School: $205,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $171,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT: $125,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $78,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $43,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $23,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCreighton University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER ILLINOIS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1916 FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorthwestern University: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWalls Turned Sideways NFP: $5,250 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $5,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEPS NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $4,496 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMadonna Mission: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELL OF MERCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGANTE WILSON FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeelanau Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO GREEN WINNETKA: $500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Education and Development Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSADDLE BROOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
  • Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY ↗
  • Who funds The People's Music School ↗
  • Who funds COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds THE 1916 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHASING HOPE FOUNDATION CHRISTINE WALKER ↗
  • Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds Walls Turned Sideways NFP ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STEPS NFP ↗
  • Who funds 1916 FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Dr Scholl FoundationJohn and Kathleen Sch…Helen V Brach Foundat…Robert R McCormick Fo…John D and Catherine …Sheila Reynolds Berne…Big Shoulders FundAbbVie FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Hulsebosch Hope Found…Irish Fellowship Educ…
The Chicago Community TrustIL28.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 128 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home