· Private foundation
The Perkins Foundation Inc
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 $10k16 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $48,600 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL GRACE CHAPEL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY INC | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| SANDHILLS CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| LEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ASCEND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,000 |
| WALLACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE UNIT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC | $500 |
| PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH | $500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $250 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
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 (FY19–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TTTEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +58%
- LCLEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +469%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA5× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +298%
Funded once
- OMOUTREACH MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +167%
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -5%- GMGRACE MINISTRIES I INCone grant, 2022 · $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.
To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Through advocacy, education, innovation and collaboration, the association provides expanded possibilities for aging, value to its members, and leadership to the field of aging.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. to accomplish this mission, we will build and change the state's labor movement.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
To discover treatments and a cure for als and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Suffolk Art League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 59 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 TEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds The Unit Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ASCEND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAMP CORRAL ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ARC of Beaufort County Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds TLC HOME 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: Ruby and Ernest McSwain Worthy Lands · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Perkins Foundation Inc 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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