· Private foundation
The Kenneth and Bettie Christopher 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $17k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westminster Canterbury Foundation | $50,000 |
| Richmond Symphony | $50,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $8,000 |
| Science Museum of VA | $1,000 |
| Virginia Museum of History & Culture | $1,000 |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden | $500 |
| World Pediatrics | $500 |
| George C Marshall Research Foundation | $500 |
| VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center | $500 |
| Hillsdale College | $400 |
| The Salvation Army | $400 |
| Special Olympics Virginia | $300 |
| St Francis Home | $300 |
| Operation Smile | $250 |
| Young Americans Foundation | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY3× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +32%
- WCWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
- TVTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM2× · 2022–2024 · $41k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2024 · $6k
- EDEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -20%
- CIChrist In Action Ministries Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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,…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Christ In Action Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds THE HENRICUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation Charitable Trust · Susan Bailey & Sidney Buford Scott Endowment Trust · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Chrisman Family Foundation · Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda · Commonwealth Foundations · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance 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 Kenneth and Bettie Christopher Perry Foundation 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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