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The Perna Family Charitable 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,750
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$87k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$4kArts & Culture$2kEducation$700Crime & Legal$700Environment$200Religion$75Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Danceability Inc$1,00010%
Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service Inc$1,00010%
Erie County Bar Foundation Inc$70020%
D'Youville University$50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$35010%
Hospice Buffalo Inc$2001n/a
Wings Flights of Hope$20010%
The Federation of Italian American Societies of Western New York$12510%
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Bvm$751n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

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.

The John R Oishei FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John R Oishei Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc give?
The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $6,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (6%).
Who are The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Danceability Inc ($1k), Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service Inc ($1k), Erie County Bar Foundation Inc ($700).
Does The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The John R Oishei Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Verizon Foundation.
Where is The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc based?
The Perna Family Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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