· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY INC | $5,000 |
| SANDHILLS CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ASCEND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,000 |
| WALLACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE UNIT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH | $500 |
| DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC | $500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $250 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +68% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 59 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 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 The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TLC HOME 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Perkins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Perkins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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