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The Louis B & Joan M Perry Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Louis B & Joan M Perry Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.8MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$857kHuman Services$694kHealth$427kArts & Culture$224kPublic Benefit$164kRecreation & Sports$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $282k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $830k
$5,149
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$165,299
ST JOHNS EVANGELIST PARISH$160,000
ST VINCENT ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL$127,200
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$115,000
ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL$112,148
THE VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD$100,000
GUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW$50,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH$45,000
GUARDIAN ANGELS CHURCH$40,000
ST MARY CHURCH AND SCHOOL$26,000
ST VINCENT ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$20,000
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK$20,000
BENEDICTINES OF MARY QUEEN OF PEACE$15,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$12,500
SACRED HEART OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$11,500
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 (FY17–24, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $2k → 16%HOLTZ'S HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 5%HOLTZ'S HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 5%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $5k → 17%JOSEPH & MARY'S HOME: $3k → 17%CHAIR-ITY INC: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $8k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $6k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $5k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $2k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $115k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $70k → 13%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $42k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $41k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 13%AKRON AREA YMCA: $10k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $1k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $3k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $2k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $1k → 13%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

AK
ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 104 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

104 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
76

Total granted

$4.8M
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+27%

Still filing today

36%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $374k · revenue +19%
  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +42%
  • OV
    OHIO VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +14% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -35%
  • DP
    DIVINE PROVIDENCE STUDIOS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +346%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -14%
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
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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2
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
3
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
4
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
7
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
11
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital foundation is a member of st. peter's health…

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12
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holtz's Heroes Foundation Inc Fka Lou's Lads Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Divine Providence Studios Inc. 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

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 201 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
49/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $827,299 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONST JOHNS EVANGELIST PARISH: $444,000 · OtherST JOHNS EVANGELIST PARISHST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL: $426,597 · OtherST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOLSACRED HEART PARISH: $308,933 · OtherSACRED HEART PARISHSACRED HEART OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $295,341 · OtherSACRED HEART OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCHARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $184,408 · OtherTHE VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD: $162,630 · Other+144 more: $2,099,085 · Other+144 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $373,701 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $30,265 · Human ServicesCORNERSTO…HOLTZ'S HEROES FOUNDATION INC FKA LOU'S LADS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $18,500 · Human Services+8 more: $42,871 · Human Services+8 moreST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $163,000 · EducationNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC: $100,000 · EducationAVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $76,501 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $47,000 · EducationENGINEERS FOUNDATION OF OHIO: $14,000 · Education+1 more: $380 · EducationPlayhouse Square Foundation: $83,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK: $80,149 · Arts & CultureLOUHOLTZ UPPER OHIO VALLEY HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $13,334 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCUYAHOGA FALLS FIREFIGHTER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,700 · Arts & CultureSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $33,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $31,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $28,000 · HealthJAKES REACH: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,750 · HealthCaringBridge: $7,200 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,275 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · Health+7 more: $10,700 · HealthAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $38,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER: $12,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $3,000 · Food & NutritionDIVINE PROVIDENCE STUDIOS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $9,500 · PhilanthropyAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropySAINT SEBASTIAN PARISH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,200 · Philanthropy
Other$4,748,293Human Services$490,337Education$400,881Arts & Culture$215,183Health$140,425Food & Nutrition$53,000Philanthropy$42,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $827,299 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $373,701 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $163,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $83,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK: $80,149 over 4y, 40% of budgetAVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $76,501 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $38,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $33,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $30,265 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHands Together Inc: $25,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOLTZ'S HEROES FOUNDATION INC FKA LOU'S LADS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJamaica Outreach Program Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL BUSINESSMENS CLUB: $22,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetDIVINE PROVIDENCE STUDIOS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGENNESARET INC: $18,720 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $17,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBLUECOATS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC: $14,500 over 7y, 19% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENGINEERS FOUNDATION OF OHIO: $14,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLOUHOLTZ UPPER OHIO VALLEY HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $13,334 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $11,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJAKES REACH: $10,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA FALLS FIREFIGHTER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AKRON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $9,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $8,262 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCaringBridge: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM OF OHIO INC: $5,700 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT SEBASTIAN PARISH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVILLAGE OF ST EDWARD AT GREEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope Meadows Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH FISH ORGANIZATION: $3,500 over 3y, 1.1% 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OHIO VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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.

Akron Community Found…Lehner Family Foundat…Gar FoundationThe Sam J Frankino Fo…Sisler McFawn Foundat…United Way of Summit …L R Moffitt & L W Mof…The Welty Family Foun…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…The Westfield Insuran…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…The Swagelok Foundati…
Akron Community FoundationOH44.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · United Way of Summit and Medina · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · The Swagelok 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 Louis B & Joan M Perry Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louis B & Joan M Perry Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
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 201 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home