· Private foundation
The Percy Fund
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $80,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YEMIN ORDE INC | $60,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| ACCURACY IN MEDIA | $50,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC | $40,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $40,000 |
| FIRE | $35,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $30,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $266k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $625k · revenue +7%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +141%- ACAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue ×12- THTRINITY HEALTH-MID-ATLANTICone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Clarion Sunshine Project. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLARION SUNSHINE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL BUCKS CO ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS FOR BOOTS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Percy Fund 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.
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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