· Private foundation
The Perkin Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $540k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $945k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECTORY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| PINGREE SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON | $80,000 |
| GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN CC | $70,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $50,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK | $45,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +69%
THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $510k · revenue +36%- GPGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- OHOCHSNER HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $100k
- NONEW ORLEANS LACROSSE & LEADERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $100k
- BDBREES DREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -42%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rectory School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 46 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.
69 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. 69 of the 126 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DUBLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREES DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL 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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 Perkin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Rectory School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 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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