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The Perper Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$660k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$4.5MArts & Culture$507kCommunity Improvement$173kHousing & Shelter$172kHealth$158kHuman Services$134kReligion$116kPhilanthropy$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $198k
  • $250k+1 grant · $660k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bowdoin College$660,250
Individual grant recipient$125,000
Spoleto Festival USA$73,000
Central Piedmont Community College$25,000
Charlotte Country Day School$22,000
Individual grant recipient$10,328
Grand Teton Natl Park Foundation$10,000
Roof Above$10,000
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$6,500
Center for the Arts$5,000
Stars Nashville$5,000
Charleston Literary Festival$5,000
Charlotte Rescue Mission$5,000
NYU Entrepreneurial Institute$5,000
Lake Toxaway Charities$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Reclaim Childhood: $1k → 8%The River Fund: $3k → 13%Special Operations Care Fund: $3k → 13%The River Fund New York: $3k → 13%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Atlanta Mission- My Sister's House: $2k → 13%Lake Toxaway Charities: $5k → 13%Lake Toxaway Charities: $3k → 13%Lake Toxaway Charities: $1k → 13%The Innocence Project: $3k → 17%Lake Toxaway Charities: $500 → 13%The Innocence Project: $3k → 17%Lake Toxaway Charities: $500 → 13%Lake Toxaway Charities: $500 → 13%Womens Impact Fund: $6k → 10%Womens Impact Fund: $6k → 10%The Women's Impact Fund: $6k → 10%Womens Impact Fund: $4k → 10%Womens Impact Fund: $4k → 10%Womens Impact Fund: $4k → 10%Womens Impact Fund: $4k → 10%Fashion and Compassion: $1k → 10%Fashion and Compassion: $1k → 10%Fashion and Compassion: $500 → 10%Fashion and Compassion: $500 → 10%Project 658: $3k → 10%Project 658: $1k → 10%Project 658: $1k → 10%Project 658: $1k → 10%Dress for Success: $256 → 10%Safe Alliance: $10k → 10%Safe Alliance: $5k → 10%Safe Alliance: $5k → 10%YMCA of Greater Charlotte: $5k → 10%Safe Alliance: $5k → 10%Safe Alliance: $5k → 10%Safe Alliance: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
WY
PA
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Perper Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 19%.

The Perper Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 66 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
45

Total granted

$5.7M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

73%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +38%
  • TA
    THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $531k · revenue +57%
  • SF
    SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $290k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +35%
  • TF
    Teach for America Piedmont Triad
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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2
Charlotte Regional Business Alliance

Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.

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3
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
4
Carolina Ballet Inc

Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…

Arts & Culture
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
7
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
10
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
11
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
12
Carolina Youth Coalition

To prepare high-performing, under-resourced students to enter, excel, and graduate from college.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
54/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bowdoin College: $2,858,550 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $531,000 · EducationTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOLCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $161,500 · Education+11 more: $106,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $640,126 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGreenLight Fund Charlotte: $100,000 · OtherGreenLight Fund CharlotteFirst Presbyterian Church: $91,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian ChurchFFTC- Carolina Theater Project: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · Other+65 more: $437,023 · Other+65 moreSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $290,444 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO F…ROOF ABOVE INC: $135,250 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOV…CHARLOTTE BALLET: $37,507 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE…Charleston Literary Festival Inc: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $28,420 · Arts & Culture+6 moreCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $60,000 · HealthHopeWay Foundation: $45,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $10,600 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,500 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLE: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $4,800 · HealthWomens Impact Fund: $34,100 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesProject 658 Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human Services+7 more: $12,356 · Human ServicesFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $63,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBee Mighty: $17,658 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,657,050Other$1,378,149Arts & Culture$508,621Health$131,900Human Services$109,456Community Improvement$66,000Philanthropy$57,658

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $2,858,550 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $531,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $290,444 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $161,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $135,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $63,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET: $37,507 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Impact Fund: $34,100 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $21,358 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBee Mighty: $17,658 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Literary Festival Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $13,420 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $12,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $10,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOTUS CAMPAIGN: $7,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject 658 Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetArtsPlus: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $3,396 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Ring Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEWORKS: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
  • Who funds Womens Impact Fund ↗
  • Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
  • Who funds Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas ↗
  • Who funds Bee Mighty ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Literary Festival Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds Renaissance West Community Initiative ↗
  • Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
  • Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationThe Marc & Mattye Sil…Albemarle FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…United Way of Greater…KPB CorporationThe Presbyterian Hosp…Truist Foundation IncUnited Way WorldwideThe Dickson Foundatio…Dowd Foundation Inc
Foundation for the CarolinasNC44.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Perper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Perper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Reclaim Childhood Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 122 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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