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The Beverly Perry Foundation at a glance

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The Beverly Perry 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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$38k
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 2025.

Health$327kEducation$138kAnimals$94kPhilanthropy$19kEnvironment$19kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$38,250
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA)$15,000
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY$10,000
BLANK PARK ZOO$9,460
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$5,000
THE DISTRACTORS$4,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,000
B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$400
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$200
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%THE SAMFUND: $2k → 16%THE DISTRACTORS: $4k → 11%THE RESONANCE COLLECTIVE: $1k → 14%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $5k → 17%BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL: $2k → 20%IOWA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 5%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $40k → 10%SHATTERPROOF: $8k → 9%LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $2k → 8%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%THE SAM FUND: $1k → 16%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $5k → 17%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $38k → 10%SHATTERPROOF: $2k → 9%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $3k → 17%VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA): $25k → 10%SHATTERPROOF: $2k → 9%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $3k → 17%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 10%Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $3k → 17%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 10%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC: $2k → 17%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 10%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF NY: $1k → 17%Variety - The Children's Charity of Iowa (The Variety Club of Iowa): $15k → 10%VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA): $15k → 10%VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA): $15k → 10%VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA): $15k → 10%Variety - The Children's Charity of Iowa (The Variety Club of Iowa): $15k → 10%VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA): $15k → 10%VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA (THE VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA): $15k → 10%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY: $10k → 17%BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%PROFESSIONALS FOR CHARITY: $1k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $20k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $10k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $10k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $10k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $10k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $10k → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $10k → 10%GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER: $5k → 17%BLANK PARK ZOO: $9k → 10%ACCESS MINDFULNESS: $5k → 17%BLANK PARK ZOO: $5k → 10%ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
IA
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 15 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$540k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+33%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • VT
    VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +28%
  • BP
    BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +38%
  • SA
    SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • RH
    ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +238%
  • AM
    ACCESS MINDFULNESS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -3%
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
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
2
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world

Philanthropy
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Resonance Collective. 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

24 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. 24 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $163,250 · OtherBLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITALVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA: $130,000 · OtherVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWAUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION+21 more: $40,200 · Other+21 moreBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $94,460 · AnimalsBLANK PARK ZOO FO…ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $3,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $18,500 · EnvironmentJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,225 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropySHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $12,000 · HealthFight 4 Diabetes Cure Inc: $500 · HealthGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$433,450Animals$94,460Education$36,500Environment$18,500Philanthropy$17,725Health$12,500Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA: $130,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $94,460 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $18,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAMFUND INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALMAGUNDI CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResonance Collective: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFight 4 Diabetes Cure Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way WorldwidePaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way WorldwideVA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 The Beverly Perry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beverly Perry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 37 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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