Iowa · Private foundation
Perry Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $428k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Perry Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 23 | $23k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $25k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $28k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $20k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $24k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $22k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Shenandoah Foundation | $9,000 | 9 | 28% |
| Prelude Behavioral Services | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Voters of Nebraska | $3,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Detroit Zoological Society | $3,150 | 9 | 0% |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Iowa City Hospice Inc | $2,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Grand Circle Foundation Inc | $1,800 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $42,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Shenandoah Foundation | $9,000 | 9 | 28% |
| Prelude Behavioral Services | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Voters of Nebraska | $3,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Detroit Zoological Society | $3,150 | 9 | 0% |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Iowa City Hospice Inc | $2,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Grand Circle Foundation Inc | $1,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Intervention Program | $1,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Amazon Medical Project Inc | $1,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Common Good Iowa | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| Extend the Dream Foundation | $800 | 2 | 1% |
| Iowa Policy Project | $600 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Crisis Services and Food Bank | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Riverside Theatre Co | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Peace Iowa | $400 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Perry Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of Johnson County · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Perry Foundation
- How much does Perry Foundation give?
- Perry Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $22,790 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Perry Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Environment (20%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Perry Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation ($42k), The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($18k), Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science ($18k).
- Does Perry Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Perry Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Perry Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Johnson County, The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Perry Foundation based?
- Perry Foundation is based in IA.
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