Georgia · Private foundation
Tyler Perry Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $42k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Tyler Perry Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $447k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $760k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $941k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $1.0M | 68% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $988k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charity Global Inc | $336,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Core Community Organized Relief Effort | $207,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Baby2baby | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Houseproud Atlanta Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Kindnessorg Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Medical Relief Fund Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc | $160,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hope Atlanta Inc | $147,800 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($931k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tyler Perry Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · The Imlay Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Choate Foundation (Fka Choate Bridges Foundation) · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc
How this is measured
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About Tyler Perry Foundation Inc
- How much does Tyler Perry Foundation Inc give?
- Tyler Perry Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $2,009,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Tyler Perry Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Arts & Culture (20%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Tyler Perry Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($500k), Charity Global Inc ($336k), Core Community Organized Relief Effort ($207k).
- Does Tyler Perry Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tyler Perry Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tyler Perry Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation, United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Tyler Perry Foundation Inc based?
- Tyler Perry Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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