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Priem Family 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.

$29M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$28M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$108MArts & Culture$4.4MHealth$911kInternational$807kAnimals$500kYouth Development$120kHousing & Shelter$102kPhilanthropy$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+3 grants · $29M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$104M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$27,622,000
PRETTY HUMAN INC$1,053,836
FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION$260,000
THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION$150,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$100,000
LIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION$25,000
THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND$25,000
THE ORION FUND$25,000
SUNFLOWER HILL$24,000
LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$24,000
SONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION$20,000
NEW HAVEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$15,000
REINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION$15,000
EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK$15,000
GOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $20k → 10%EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $15k → 10%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115M · 14 repeat orgs$507k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$115M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

93%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    5× · 2021–2025 · $78M · revenue +20%
  • FY
    FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $807k · revenue +132%
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • RP
    RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - TRANSFER OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
    one grant, 2021 · $274k
  • PH
    PRETTY HUMAN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $110k
  • TC
    TIDES CENTER DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
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
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
2
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Lumies Foundation
Health
4
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
5
The Justin King Foundation Incorporated
Philanthropy
6
The Shining Star Foundation

The Organization provides an intensive, individualized academic program for students with multiple learning differences with a commitment to helping them achieve their full potential and lead gratifying productive lives.

Education
7
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
8
The Tlk Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Lhon Collective

To accelerate progress toward a cure for leber hereditary optic neuropathy (lhon) while improving the lives of people living with lhon.

Health
10
Tierney Equine Foundation
Recreation & Sports
11
Catalight Foundation

Our purpose is to break down barriers and biases within health systems through timely, equitable, and precise access to care. radically transforming the autism & idd journey through value-based care.

Health
12
The Lichtenstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind Inc; the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium 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

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 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $77,797,892 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute+2 more: $150,000 · EducationRENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - FROM DOCTRINA LLC: $30,000,000 · OtherRENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE…CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA INC: $2,748,700 · OtherCENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA IN…+8 more: $482,301 · OtherPRETTY HUMAN INC: $1,623,070 · Arts & CultureLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $65,000 · Arts & CultureFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION: $807,392 · PhilanthropyLIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $44,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $640,000 · Recreation & SportsREINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $500,000 · AnimalsSUNFLOWER HILL: $101,500 · HealthSONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $65,500 · HealthTIDES CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $35,000 · Human Services
Education$77,947,892Other$33,231,001Arts & Culture$1,688,070Philanthropy$851,392Recreation & Sports$670,000Animals$500,000Health$167,000Human Services$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $77,797,892 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA INC: $2,748,700 over 3y, 28% of budgetFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION: $807,392 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $640,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORION FUND: $125,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetSUNFLOWER HILL: $101,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $65,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $65,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $35,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetREINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC LIVING CENTERS FOR THE BLIND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TLC FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNEW HAVEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

Livermore Valley Wine…The Taylor Family Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Livermore Valley Winegrowers FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation · The Taylor Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Priem Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Priem Family Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Priem Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Priem Family Foundation 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 24 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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