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Rose Perenin Foundation at a glance

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Rose Perenin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$402k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$318kHealth$226kPhilanthropy$150kFood & Nutrition$150kCommunity Improvement$55kHousing & Shelter$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $250
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $238k
$32,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Humboldt Senior Resource$95,000
Hawaii Literacy Inc$80,000
Ink People English Express Project$62,500
Life Plan Humboldt$40,000
Humboldt Literacy Project$33,332
Boys and Girls Clubs of Humboldt Co$32,500
Humboldt County Library$26,250
Hospice of Humboldt$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Redwood Memorial Hospital Foundatio$10,000
Alzheimers Association$250
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 (FY22–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hospice of Humboldt: $50k → 18%Hospice of Humboldt: $50k → 18%Hospice of Humboldt: $13k → 18%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 15 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$3.3M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+26%

Still filing today

53%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • HS
    Humboldt Senior Resource Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $995k · revenue +251%
  • HL
    HAWAII LITERACY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +26%
  • HL
    Humboldt Literacy Project
    8× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue +20% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • FS
    Fortuna Senior Center
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • LC
    Life Care Humboldt
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • RR
    Redwoods Rural Health
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Healy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc

The Healy Senior Center supports independent, meaningful, dignified lives for older adults of Southern Humboldt County, CA through social interaction, recreation, Senior Dining and Home Delivered Meals, health and care maintenance,…

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2
Humboldt County Food Pantry

Provide a community food pantry to low-income residents in Humboldt County.

Food & Nutrition
3
Humboldt County Historical Association
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4
Access Humboldt

To provide support support and community based media programs to the public. Access Humboldt establishes and operates a community media access center and serves access viewers with programming reflecting the activities, concerns, diversity…

Arts & Culture
5
Zero Waste Humboldt

Conducted analysis for city of Arcata on Edible Food Rescue Capacity Publish in local EcoNews monthly news letter Design guide for businesses to become certified in Zero Waste Spoke with numerous individuals and organizations about Zero…

Environment
6
2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center

To provide resources and referrals primarily by phone to residents of Humboldt County

Human Services
7
Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives Inc

AHHA provides information, education, advocacy and policy development for affordable housing with the homeless in Humboldt County. AHHA will facilitate the implementation of these alternative housing models by networking with private…

Housing & Shelter
8
Health Projects Center

Health Projects Center supports people as they age to live safely at home by delivering high quality services and programs in the Monterey Bay Region.

Crime & Legal
9
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc

Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.

Human Services
10
Glenn County Senior Centers

Provide Senior Citizens daily activity programs and nutrition. A thrift shop is operated to partially support the activities.

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11
Redwood Community Action Agency

The purpose of redwood community action agency is to mobilize and coordinate antipoverty resources within Humboldt county, California and to preserve land for scenic, educational and open space opportunities.

Human Services
12
Humboldt Mediation Services

To promote the peaceful resolutions of conflicts in our community by providing the best possible services in mediation, education in conflict resolution skills, and other peacemaking tools.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humboldt Senior Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is New Life Christian School. 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

11 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. 11 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Humboldt Senior Resource Center: $995,000 · OtherHumboldt Senior Resource CenterHAWAII LITERACY INC: $640,000 · OtherHAWAII LITERACY INCBoys and Girls Clubs of Humboldt Co: $317,500 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Humboldt CoHumboldt County Library: $253,250 · OtherHumboldt County LibraryMcClean Foundation: $150,000 · OtherInk People English Express Project: $140,698 · OtherRedwood Memorial Hospital Foundatio: $95,000 · Other+14 more: $256,500 · Other+14 moreHumboldt Literacy Project: $246,247 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesLife Plan Humboldt: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Health
Other$2,847,948Education$248,247Food & Nutrition$150,000Human Services$112,500Housing & Shelter$80,000Health$3,000

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 budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center: $995,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC: $640,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetHumboldt Literacy Project: $246,247 over 8y, 41% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC: $112,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLife Plan Humboldt: $80,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetREDWOOD COAST VILLAGE: $17,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetEEL RIVER VALLEY MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetFORTUNA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds Humboldt Senior Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds Humboldt Literacy Project ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC ↗
  • Who funds Life Plan Humboldt ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD COAST VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds EEL RIVER VALLEY MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FORTUNA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

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.

Humboldt Area Foundat…Patricia D & William …Christine & Jalmer Be…Amazonsmile Foundation
Humboldt Area FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation · Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · 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 Rose Perenin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rose Perenin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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