· Private foundation
Perry Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SACNAS | $3,500 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $2,900 |
| ACLU | $1,400 |
| GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY | $650 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450 |
| ENGLERT THEATER | $350 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $350 |
| FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $350 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF IOWA | $350 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $350 |
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 (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +80%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +43%
- SFSOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHICANOS AND NATIVE AMERICANS IN SCIENCE5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- EFEXTEND-A-DREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $400
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.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.
To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
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…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHICANOS AND NATIVE AMERICANS IN SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRELUDE BEHAVIORAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTERS OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AMAZON MEDICAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GOOD IOWA ↗
- Who funds EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA POLICY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Perry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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