· Private foundation
The Perkin Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $50,000 |
| KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK | $45,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +91%
THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $510k · revenue +36%- GPGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIALone grant, 2021 · $100k
- BDBREES DREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -42%
- NONEW ORLEANS LACROSSE & LEADERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Perkin Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Perkin Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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