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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$556k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’20
22
’21
16
’22
13
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$24MHealth$1.9MCivil Rights$1.4MEducation$723kYouth Development$538kArts & Culture$187kCrime & Legal$108kFood & Nutrition$108kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
$45,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHICKS AHOY FARM INC$45,000
YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE$45,000
CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY$40,000
COMMITTEE FOR A NEW WATERBURY$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $5k → 20%SERVING ALL VESSELS EQUALLY INC: $38k → 9%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.
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 87% of The Perrin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Perrin 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 23 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$4.9M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $626k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AB
    A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +183% · 43% of their budget
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $562k · revenue +124%
  • BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $73k · revenue +25%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +63%
  • FA
    FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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.

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Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
4
Cityworks Dc

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…

Education
5
Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

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.

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6
Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc

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.

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Youth Represent Inc

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.…

Crime & Legal
8
Social Impact Partners Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 39 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACTASSETSINC: $15,817,417 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $7,318,185 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD+6 more: $920,903 · PhilanthropyA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $1,712,500 · HealthWINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $182,500 · OtherCITYWIDE YOUTH COALITION: $162,500 · OtherUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK: $161,575 · OtherMAKE THE ROAD STATES: $95,000 · OtherTHE WRITER'S BLOCK INK INC: $144,500 · OtherCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $62,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY MEDIATION INC: $107,500 · OtherHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $62,500 · Other+12 more: $311,700 · OtherKATAL CENTER FOR EQUITY HEALTH AND JUSTICE INC: $587,550 · InternationalTRINITY COLLEGE: $556,007 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $380,000 · Civil RightsSAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC: $152,500 · Youth DevelopmentWorld Wide Youth Networks: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentSchool of Unity and Liberation: $20,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$24,056,505Health$1,712,500Other$1,375,275International$587,550Education$566,007Civil Rights$380,000Youth Development$317,500

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 budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $15,817,417 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $7,318,185 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $1,712,500 over 4y, 43% of budgetKATAL CENTER FOR EQUITY HEALTH AND JUSTICE INC: $587,550 over 4y, 20% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $561,795 over 4y, 17% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $556,007 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $380,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $275,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $182,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCITYWIDE YOUTH COALITION: $162,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetSAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC: $152,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE WRITER'S BLOCK INK INC: $144,500 over 3y, 40% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION INC: $107,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetWorld Wide Youth Networks: $90,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $73,238 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $62,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $62,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetYOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE: $55,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $42,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake the Road New York: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVING ALL VESSELS EQUALLY: $37,500 over 1y, 51% of budgetSchool of Unity and Liberation: $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetMiddlesex United Way Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVE HARTFORD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $2,870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

William Caspar Graust…Nellie Mae Education …Hartford Foundation f…Fairfield County's Co…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Leever FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foun…Haymarket People's Fu…The Connecticut Commu…Ion Bank Foundation I…The Melville Charitab…The Fund for Greater …
William Caspar Graustein Memorial FundCT38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Perrin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Perrin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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