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The Perrin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Perrin Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Impactassetsinc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Perrin Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
- $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $556,007 |
| A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION | $385,000 |
| A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION | $385,000 |
| UNITED WE DREAM | $375,000 |
| A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| KATAL CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY AND JUSTICE | $350,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY | $260,000 |
| BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE | $120,000 |
| WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC | $50,000 |
| WORLD WIDE YOUTH NETWORKS | $50,000 |
| A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE | $45,000 |
| CHICKS AHOY FARM INC | $45,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY | $40,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR A NEW WATERBURY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 87% of The Perrin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $626k 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
- ABA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +183% · 43% of their budget
- CCCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY4× · 2020–2023 · $562k · revenue +124%
BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE4× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2020 · $73k · revenue +25%
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +63%- FAFRACTURED ATLAS INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…
Social Impact Partners ("SIP") is an innovative nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the opportunity divide in Connecticut by expanding pathways to living wage jobs and economic mobility for all, working with partners across the…
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 39 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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
- Who funds KATAL CENTER FOR EQUITY HEALTH AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CITYWIDE YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WRITER'S BLOCK INK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDIATION INC ↗
- Who funds World Wide Youth Networks ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Chicks Ahoy Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds SERVING ALL VESSELS EQUALLY ↗
- Who funds School of Unity and Liberation ↗
- Who funds Middlesex United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Make The Road States Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
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: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Leever Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Melville Charitable Trust Inc · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc
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 Perrin Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Blue Hills Civic Association — 72% of income from government
- Serving All Vessels Equally — 61% of income from government
- Institute for Community Research Inc — 48% of income from government
- Youth Business Initiative — 36% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Writer's Block Ink Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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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