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The Edward and Dorothy Perkins Foundatio

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.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Human Services$152kHealth$146kYouth Development$123kAnimals$88kHousing & Shelter$85kEducation$74kInternational$60kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON NY$10,000
ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CTR$10,000
GREEN & GOLD FUND INC$10,000
NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC$10,000
YPIE - YONKERS PARTNER IN EDUCATION INC$10,000
PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC$10,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$10,000
GREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDRENS SERVICES INC$7,000
EXALT YOUTH$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC$5,000
BUSINESSES UNITED INVESTING LENDING DEVT$5,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $5k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $5k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $10k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $10k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $8k → 9%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $8k → 9%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $5k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $8k → 17%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $5k → 9%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $8k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $6k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $6k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $20k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
CA
VA
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$730k · 26 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$730k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +36%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +1%
  • NH
    NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • LG
    LET'S GET READY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • QB
    QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

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Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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10
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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11
Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
12
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Chimneys Children's Service and the most unlike its peers is Green and Gold Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr11%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr11%38%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
12%
7,507/62,804

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 46 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYCOVENANT HOUSE — $55,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INCASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $30,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDRENPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INCHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesGREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $42,500 · OtherGREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICEFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $40,000 · OtherFEEDING WESTCHESTER INCELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER — $38,500 · OtherELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTERHARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE PROMISE — $25,000 · OtherHARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE PROMISEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MT VERNON — $12,500 · OtherYPIE - YONKERS PARTNER IN EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON INC — $10,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY — $10,000 · OtherGREEN AND GOLD FUND INC — $25,000 · OtherGREEN AND GOLD FUND INCQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $30,500 · Other+9 moreNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…EXALT YOUTH — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXALT YOUTHGLOBAL KIDS INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL KIDS INCNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $35,500 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $27,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICA…SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 · AnimalsSPCA OF WES…HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCI…YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC — $46,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF KAREN INC — $30,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $12,500 · HealthNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · HealthCALVARY FUND INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$237,000Other$264,000Youth Development$115,000Animals$82,500Education$57,500Health$55,500Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $52,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC — $46,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN CHIMNEYS CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER — $38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN AND GOLD FUND INC — $25,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEXALT YOUTH — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis J Acompora Memorial Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCALVARY FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…The Thomas and Agnes …Mbia FoundationPcsb Community Founda…Webster Bank Charitab…Mutual of America Fou…The New York Communit…American Express Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 The Edward and Dorothy Perkins Foundatio 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 46 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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