Perry Foundation

• Your organisation fits if it is a public charity, since the foundation makes grants only to public charities and not to individuals or other private foundations, and its recorded recipients span schools, housing, food banks, health and social services, youth and sports groups and cultural bodies.
• Its grants have gone to organisations in Virginia, but no geographic focus is stated, so that pattern describes past giving rather than a rule about who may apply.
• Typical grants fall between $5,000 and $125,000, with a median of $20,000 and half of grants at $20,000 or less, so a modest request near that level suits it, although the largest grant was $500,000.
• Apply by letter describing your organisation and the nature of your request; the filing gives no deadlines, so ask the foundation about timing before you write.
• About 35% of grant dollars in the latest filing went to organisations it had funded before, so repeat support is a real share of its giving, but a first approach is still worth making.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• New Hill Development Corporation · Purpose of donee
  $300,0002025 tax year
• Village School · Purpose of donee
  $250,0002025 tax year
• Twice Is Nice · Purpose of donee
  $250,0002025 tax year
• United Way of Greater Charlottesville · Purpose of donee
  $160,0002025 tax year
• Region Ten Community Services Board · Purpose of donee
  $150,0002025 tax year
• North Branch School · Purpose of donee
  $125,0002025 tax year
• Via Centers for Neurodevelopment · Purpose of donee
  $125,0002025 tax year
• Virginia Soccer Alliance · Purpose of donee
  $125,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.