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Perry Foundation Inc at a glance

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Perry Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$3.1MHealth$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.9MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MRecreation & Sports$826kYouth Development$577kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $684k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $800k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$300,000
VILLAGE SCHOOL$250,000
TWICE IS NICE$250,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE$160,000
REGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD$150,000
WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY$125,000
VIRGINIA SOCCER ALLIANCE$125,000
NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL$125,000
VIA CENTERS FOR NEURODEVELOPMENT$125,000
SALVATION ARMY$125,000
PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA$84,500
BENNET'S VILLAGE$80,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$52,000
FREE UNION COUNTRY SCHOOL$50,000
PEABODY SCHOOL$50,000
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 (FY18–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 13%ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 13%ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 13%MILLENNIUM GROUP: $53k → 13%NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $300k → 8%ARC OF THE PIEDMONT: $160k → 8%READY KIDS: $150k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $125k → 8%READY KIDS: $100k → 8%ARC OF THE PIEDMONT: $45k → 8%ARC OF THE PIEDMONT: $45k → 8%CASA ALMA: $25k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $10k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $5k → 8%TWICE IS NICE: $250k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $135k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING: $110k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING: $100k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $85k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $55k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $50k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE INC: $9k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING: $5k → 8%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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 79 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
48

Total granted

$12M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+2%

Still filing today

73%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +364%
  • TH
    TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +400%
  • TB
    THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $438k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • PV
    PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $166k · revenue -13%
  • JH
    JOURNEY HOME INC
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue -32%
  • SH
    SupportWorks Housing
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -11%
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
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
2
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
3
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
4
Central Virginia Health Services Inc

Central virginia health services, inc. (organization) is a non-profit health care organization with locations in bowling green, charles city, new canton, charlotte court house, farmville, alberta, petersburg, aylett, hopewell, montross,…

Health
5
The Haven At First and Market Inc

The haven provides a safe and welcoming space for the homeless and very poor in charlottesville, virginia area by supprting individuals and families as they pursue stability through connections to resources and creative housing…

Human Services
6
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
7
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education
8
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
9
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
10
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
11
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Comm

The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…

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12
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Charlottesville Inc; the most unlike its peers is Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation. 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

96 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. 96 of the 142 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
65/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $750,000 · OtherTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $500,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $344,000 · OtherTANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $300,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $272,500 · OtherCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $250,000 · Other+79 more: $4,375,529 · Other+79 morePIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $304,500 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT FAMIL…NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $300,000 · Human ServicesNEW HILL DEVEL…THE ARC OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE…READYKIDS INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesREADYKIDS INCTWICE IS NICE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesTWICE IS NICE …JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON AREA…GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $140,400 · Human ServicesGEORGIA'S FRIE…SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,000 · Human Services+3 more: $86,500 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $437,500 · EducationTHE BLUE RIDG…VILLAGE SCHOOL: $272,000 · EducationVILLAGE SCHOO…THE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE: $250,000 · EducationTHE MILLER SC…PEABODY SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationPEABODY SCHOO…CHARLOTTESVILLE DAY SCHOOL INC: $210,000 · EducationCHARLOTTESVIL…PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $166,000 · EducationPIEDMONT VIRG…NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationNORTH BRANCH …+4 more: $136,000 · Education+4 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE: $1,015,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA I…CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTES…CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $70,000 · PhilanthropyMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $385,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLIVE ARTS INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $49,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $380,000 · Housing & ShelterPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $222,000 · Housing & ShelterJOURNEY HOME INC: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $108,100 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE AND CONGREGATIONS ENGAGED IN MINISTRY: $55,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterREGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC: $275,000 · HealthMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $111,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $110,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $100,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC: $95,000 · HealthMartha Jefferson House: $50,000 · HealthON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $46,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD: $40,000 · HealthOrange Free Clinic Inc: $40,000 · Health+4 more: $44,155 · Health
Other$6,792,029Human Services$1,971,400Education$1,846,500Philanthropy$1,445,000Arts & Culture$1,076,500Housing & Shelter$935,100Health$911,155

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE: $1,015,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $437,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $385,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $380,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $304,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $300,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetREGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC: $275,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL: $272,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE: $250,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $250,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPEABODY SCHOOL: $250,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $222,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $215,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE DAY SCHOOL INC: $210,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $166,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $140,400 over 3y, 17% of budgetBENNETT'S VILLAGE INC: $140,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $137,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $135,253 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $125,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSENIOR CENTER INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $125,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetVIRGINA SOCCER ALLIANCEINC: $125,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $110,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $108,100 over 5y, 33% of budgetSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $105,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetINNISFREE INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $96,700 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC: $95,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetLIVE ARTS INC: $82,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetWINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $71,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $70,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPEOPLE AND CONGREGATIONS ENGAGED IN MINISTRY: $55,000 over 7y, 1.8% 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.

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.

Charlottesville Area …The J & E Berkley Fou…Caplin FoundationManning Family Founda…The Genan FoundationThe Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…Sentara HealthThe Oak Hill FundS&P Global Foundation…Whitney and Anne Ston…United Way of Greater…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA160.8× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Genan Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Sentara Health · The Oak Hill Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Perry Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Perry Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 142 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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