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The Steve Perry 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.

$295k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$80,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$149,507
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$291k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Steve Perry Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$230k0%
FY20244$243k100%
FY20231$10k100%
FY20222$20k50%
FY20212$15k100%
FY20206$27k50%
FY20199$91k56%
FY20189$61k33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$376kEducation$325kArts & Culture$219kFood & Nutrition$61kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$20kAnimals$16kHuman Services$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$260,00020%
Farm Aid Inc$30,00011%
Kings United Way$20,00022%
Alexandria House$20,0002n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$16,00010%
Giants Community Fund$11,00030%
National Wildlife Federation$10,00010%
Hanford Carnegie Museum$9,0003n/a
Gary Sinise Foundation$5,00010%
Miraculous Love Kids$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Steve Perry Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$260,00020%
Farm Aid Inc$30,00011%
Kings United Way$20,00022%
Alexandria House$20,0002n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$16,00010%
Giants Community Fund$11,00030%
National Wildlife Federation$10,00010%
Hanford Carnegie Museum$9,0003n/a
Gary Sinise Foundation$5,00010%
Miraculous Love Kids$5,0001n/a
Maldef Property Management Corp$5,00010%
The Gorilla Foundation$5,00011%
The Joseph Ahmed Foundation Inc$4,00016%
Maine Academy of Modern Music$3,00010%
A Place Called Home$2,00010%
Shelter From the Storm Inc$1,0001n/a
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($365k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Steve Perry Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $260,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFarm Aid Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKings United Way: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiants Community Fund: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaldef Property Management Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Gorilla Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Joseph Ahmed Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA Place Called Home: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Steve Perry Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Steve Perry 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.

About The Steve Perry Foundation

How much does The Steve Perry Foundation give?
The Steve Perry Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $294,507 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Steve Perry Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (30%), Arts & Culture (20%).
Who are The Steve Perry Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($260k), Farm Aid Inc ($30k), Kings United Way ($20k).
Does The Steve Perry Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Steve Perry 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 Steve Perry Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Steve Perry Foundation based?
The Steve Perry Foundation is based in CA.

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 33 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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