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Charles B & Louis R Perini Family

Dallas, TX · EIN 04-6118587. Reported 106 grants totalling $405,800 to 58 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,750median grant
$405,800granted, 2021-2025
58recipients, as named on its returns
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,008,020assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Charles B & Louis R Perini Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $3,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $85,943. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
37 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
53 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
See Attached List of CharitiesDallas, TX$85,943112022
See Attached List of CharitiesProvidence, RI$68,730112021
Pan-Mass ChallengeBoston, MA$29,548332025
Baypath Humane SocietyHopkinton, MA$21,351332025
Enjoy Life Education IncDover, MA$20,000332025
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA$20,000222025
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA$9,100222025
St Michael Special SchoolNew Orleans, LA$9,000332025
Emerson Health Care FoundationConcord, MA$8,500332025
Sarah Lawrence CollegeBronxville, NY$8,500332025
Ladies Auxiliary of Hispanic ApostolateMetairie, LA$8,300222025
Foundation for Sarcoidosis ResearchChicago, IL$7,000222025
Women's New Life CenterNew Orleans, LA$6,000222025
Mount Auburn HospitalCambridge, MA$5,000112024
National Marine Life CenterBuzzards Bay, MA$5,000222025
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$5,000222025
The Cat ConnectionWaltham, MA$5,000222025
College of the Holy CrossWorcester, MA$4,638112023
Ronald Mcdonald HouseNew Orleans, LA$4,638112023
St John's Preparatory SchoolDanvers, MA$4,638112023
Ronald Mcdonald House of South LouisianaNew Orleans, LA$4,500222025
The Feminist InstituteNew York, NY$4,500332025
Congregation Emanu-El of WestchesterRye, NY$4,000332025
Womens New Life CenterNew Orleans, LA$4,000112023
Association to Preserve Cape CodDennis, MA$3,500332025
Clearwater Marine Acquarium C/O Hanson Wallbridge Funeral HomeBennington, VT$3,500112023
Buzzards Bay CoalitionNew Bedford, MA$3,000332025
Ladies Auxiliaries of the Hispanic ApostolateMetairie, LA$3,000112023
Shriners Childrens HospitalAtlanta, GA$3,000112023
St Clement of Rome Catholic ChurchMetairie, LA$3,000112023
St Jude's Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$3,000112023
The Salvation ArmyAlexandria, VA$3,000112023
VinfenCambridge, MA$3,000222025
National Kidney Fdn of LouisianaNew Orleans, LA$2,413222025
Myakka Elephant RanchBradenton, FL$2,300222025
Rosie's Place IncBoston, MA$2,000112025
President & Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, MA$1,850332025
The Fenn SchoolConcord, MA$1,800332025
Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation for Falmouth HospitalHyannis, MA$1,500112023
Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation IncHyannis, MA$1,500222025
Shriners' Hospitals for ChildrenTampa, FL$1,500222025
American Liver FoundationWest Orange, NJ$1,000112025
Atlantic White Shark ConservancyChatham, MA$1,000112023
Friends of Nobska Light IncFalmouth, MA$1,000112025
Sisters at HeartNorth Attleboro, MA$1,000112024
Slaves of the Immaculate HeartStill River, MA$1,000222025
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$600332025
Student Advocacy IncElmsford, NY$600332025
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of MaryVienna, OH$551112023
Milton AcademyMilton, MA$500332025
Mystic SeaportMystic, CT$500112023
Salt Pond Areas Bird SanctuariesWest Falmouth, MA$500112025
International Myeloma FoundationStudio City, CA$450332025
Harvard Business SchoolCambridge, MA$300222024
Maple Foundation IncOviedo, FL$300112025
Birthright Israel FoundationNew York, NY$250112023
Boston UniversityBoston, MA$250112023
Lewy Body Dementia AssociationLiburn, GA$250112023

32 of 58 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 70%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 62 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
16 grants
Animal Welfare
8 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Environment
6 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Social Science
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20211$68,730$68,730
20221$85,943$85,943
202335$93,327$2,000
202433$78,000$2,000
202536$79,800$1,150

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

39% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Massachusetts
$156K
Texas
$86K
Rhode Island
$69K
Louisiana
$45K
New York
$18K
Tennessee
$8K
Illinois
$7K
Florida
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund26 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc24 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust20 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc17 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program17 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,750. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Charles B & Louis R Perini Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 04-6118587 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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