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Perry Scholarship Pfdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$93kScience & Tech$1k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$415k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$5,500
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT PRESQUE ISLE$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$2,000
NORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
SAINT ANSLEM COLLEGE$1,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT AUGUSTA$1,000
HUSSON UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MI
MA
OH
PA
CT
CO
LA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$80k · 9 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$80k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

33%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HU
    Husson University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +11%
  • TO
    Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • PP
    POINT PARK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MC
    MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +48%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bowdoin College and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE — $30,950 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC — $19,225 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE — $4,350 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINENORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $4,000 · OtherNORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT AUGUSTA — $3,100 · Other+10 more — $10,100 · Other+10 moreHusson University — $10,250 · EducationHusson UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $2,300 · EducationTrustees of Saint Joseph's…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $1,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationBowdoin College — $850 · Education+3 more — $1,350 · Education+3 more
Other$71,725Education$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHusson University — $10,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University — $425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $425 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Husson University
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine
  • Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Bowdoin College
  • Who funds BECKER COLLEGE
  • Who funds Norwich University
  • Who funds Cedarville University
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Davis Educational FoundationME15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Educational Foundation · Albert H Young · Verizon Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Perry Scholarship Pfdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Norwich University14% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College5% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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