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PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC

PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $467,903 to it, the largest being THE HARTFORD DISPENSARY ($267,917). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.0M
Revenue FY2023
10
Funders on record
$468k
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.4M) Expenses 100 ($6.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 88 ($5.7M) Expenses 93 ($6.1M) Net assets 89 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 97 ($6.2M) Expenses 99 ($6.5M) Net assets 83 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 110 ($7.1M) Expenses 117 ($7.7M) Net assets 65 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 122 ($7.9M) Expenses 116 ($7.7M) Net assets 65 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 121 ($7.8M) Expenses 119 ($7.9M) Net assets 57 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 139 ($9.0M) Expenses 142 ($9.4M) Net assets 47 ($1.7M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (139)Expenses (142)Net assets (47)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
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2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 72% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 70% · 2021 64% · 2022 58% · 2023 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$164k
17
$470k
18
$284k
19
$626k
20
$183k
21
$112k
22
$402k
23
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $58k.

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC.

57%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 97% · 2022 41% · 2023 99%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
MA
IN
CT
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $389 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.1M on record — $600k federal, $20.5M state.

Federal$600k
grants $600kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$600k
State$20.5M
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Top programs
  • Client Services-General$14.3M
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$5.4M
  • State Aid Grants$568k
  • Wage Restitution to Clients$171k
  • Visual Media Services$7k
  • Client Subsidies$3k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC?
PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $467,903 to it, the largest being THE HARTFORD DISPENSARY ($267,917). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $467,903 in grants to PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC?
THE HARTFORD DISPENSARY is the largest funder on record, with $267,917 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 10funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing