North Carolina · Private foundation
The Perper Family Foundation
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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $660,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 59
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Perper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.0M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $964k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $1.0M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $507k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $844k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $346k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowdoin College | $2,858,550 | 5 | 0% |
| The Agnes Irwin School | $531,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Spoleto Festival USA Inc | $290,444 | 7 | 1% |
| Charlotte Country Day School | $161,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Roof Above Inc | $135,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Freedom Communities | $63,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| HopeWay Foundation | $45,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Charlotte Ballet | $37,507 | 4 | 0% |
| Womens Impact Fund | $34,100 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Perper Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · KPB Corporation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Truist Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Perper Family Foundation
- How much does The Perper Family Foundation give?
- The Perper Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $1,029,608 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 59 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Perper Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Arts & Culture (9%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are The Perper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Bowdoin College ($2.9M), The Agnes Irwin School ($531k), Spoleto Festival USA Inc ($290k).
- Does The Perper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Perper Family Foundation 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 Perper Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation.
- Where is The Perper Family Foundation based?
- The Perper Family Foundation is based in NC.
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