Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Perkin Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Perkin Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.2M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.2M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $1.2M | 59% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $555,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Pingree School Inc | $510,000 | 7 | 0% |
| George Pocock Rowing Foundation | $500,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Rectory School Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dublin School Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Childrens Museum | $335,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Fort Ticonderoga Association | $290,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Brookwood School Incorporated | $260,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Special Forces Charitable Trust | $250,000 | 4 | 3% |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Perkin Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Boston Foundation Inc · Goldring Family Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Baptist Community Ministries · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Perkin Fund
- How much does The Perkin Fund give?
- The Perkin Fund reported 37 grants totaling $1,492,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Perkin Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Perkin Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Corporation ($555k), The Pingree School Inc ($510k), George Pocock Rowing Foundation ($500k).
- Does The Perkin Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Perkin Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Perkin Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.
- Where is The Perkin Fund based?
- The Perkin Fund is based in MA.
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