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Peravid Foundation Agency

Milwaukee, WI · EIN 41-2008607. Reported 214 grants totalling $1,921,400 to 71 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$1,921,400granted, 2021-2024
71recipients, as named on its returns
89%of grantees funded again the next year
$12.4Massets, 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. Peravid Foundation Agency 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 $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $7,500; the smallest was $400 and the largest $105,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
113 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
44 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
31 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Guthrie TheatreMinneapolis, MN$320,000442024
Beacon Interfaith Housing CollabSt Paul, MN$195,000442024
Arts PartnershipSaint Paul, MN$190,000442024
Minneapolis Institute of ArtsMinneapolis, MN$180,000442024
Ordway Center for Performing ArtsSt Paul, MN$160,000442024
Twin Cities Public TelevisionSt Paul, MN$82,000442024
Community Foundation of NantucketNantucket, MA$62,500442024
Pillsbury United CommunitiesMinneapolis, MN$60,000442024
Beacon Interfaith HousingSt Paul, MN$40,000112023
Minnesota OperaMinneapolis, MN$40,000442024
Planned Parenthood of Mn Nd & SdSt Paul, MN$40,000442024
The Saint Paul Chamber OrchestraSaint Paul, MN$40,000442024
VocalessenceMinneapolis, MN$29,000442024
Nantucket Cottage HospitalNantucket, MA$25,000442024
St Paul AcademySt Paul, MN$25,000442024
Nantucket Land CouncilNantucket, MA$22,000442024
Walker Art CenterMinneapolis, MN$22,000442024
Boston MedflightBedford, MA$20,000442024
Colorado CollegeColorado Springs, CO$20,000442024
Minnesota Public RadioSaint Paul, MN$20,000442024
Nantucket Athaneum LibraryNantucket, MA$20,000442024
Park Nicollet FoundationSt Louis Park, MN$20,000112021
Simpson Housing ServicesMinneapolis, MN$20,000442024
Minnesota Dance TheatreMinneapolis, MN$17,500222022
Saint Paul Minnesota FoundationSaint Paul, MN$15,000112023
Nantucket Conservation FoundationNantucket, MA$12,500222024
Sustainable NantucketNantucket, MA$12,000442024
Milkweed EditionsMinneapolis, MN$11,500442024
Egan Maritime InstituteNantucket, MA$11,000442024
Nantucket Historic AssociationNantucket, MA$11,000442024
Acknow Community Initiatives IncNantucket, MA$10,000112023
Center for Victims of TortureSaint Paul, MN$10,000442024
Film Society of Minneapolis St PaulMinneapolis, MN$10,000442024
Nantucket Preservation TrustNantucket, MA$10,000442024
Project for Pride in LivingMinneapolis, MN$8,000442024
Sankaty Head FoundationSiasconset, MA$8,000442024
YWCA of MinneapolisMinneapolis, MN$8,000442024
Nantucket Conservation FdnNantucket, MA$7,500222022
Nantucket Yacht Club FoundationNantucket, MA$7,000442024
Maria Mitchell AssociationNantucket, MA$6,500442024
High Point Center for PrintmakingMinneapolis, MN$6,000332024
Page Education FoundationMinneapolis, MN$6,000442024
Linda Loring Nature FoundationNantucket, MA$5,500442024
Common Bond CommunitiesSt Paul, MN$5,000112024
Law Enforcement Labor Service Benev FndBrooklyn Center, MN$5,000112024
Macphail Center for MusicMinneapolis, MN$5,000442024
Afp Minnesota ChapterEden Prairie, MN$4,500112022
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA$4,000442024
Dreamland Theater FdnNantucket, MA$4,000442024
Girl Scouts of Mn & Wi River ValleySt Paul, MN$4,000442024
UC Hastings College of the LawSan Francisco, CA$4,000442024
US Seniors Golf Assn Memorial FundElmsford, NY$4,000442024
Volunteers of America MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$4,000442024
Minnesota Landscape ArboretumChaska, MN$3,500222024
Hope Community IncMinneapolis, MN$3,000222024
Global MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$2,000442024
Highpoint Center for PrintmakingMinneapolis, MN$2,000112023
Hope Community IncChicago, IL$2,000222022
Indigenous Peoples Task ForceMinneapolis, MN$2,000112021
Plymouth Congregation Church of MnMinneapolis, MN$2,000222024
Plymouth Congregational Church of MnMinneapolis, MN$2,000222022
The Loft Literary CenterMinneapolis, MN$2,000222024
The Loft Literary LibraryMinneapolis, MN$2,000222022
University of Minnesota FoundationMinneapolis, MN$2,000222022
University of Mn Fdn Fbo Bell MuseumSaint Paul, MN$2,000222024
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum FoundationChaska, MN$1,500112023
Freshwater SocietySaint Paul, MN$1,000112023
Massachusetts Golf AssnNorton, MA$1,000112021
Planned Parenthood of Greater OhioColumbus, OH$1,000112021
St Paul Jewish Community CenterSt Paul, MN$1,000112021
Springboard for the ArtsSt Paul, MN$400112024

56 of 71 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 89%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 117 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.

Arts & Culture
56 grants
Environment
11 grants
Human Services
8 grants
International Affairs
8 grants
Education
7 grants
Housing & Shelter
6 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202156$427,000$2,000
202251$467,500$2,500
202354$493,500$4,000
202453$533,400$3,000

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

85% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Minnesota
$1.6M
Massachusetts
$260K
Colorado
$20K
New York
$4K
California
$4K
Illinois
$2K
Ohio
$1K

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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 Fund44 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc43 shared recipientsThe Minneapolis Foundation31 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust30 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program29 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc28 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. 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 Minnesota.
  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 Peravid Foundation Agency's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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 0634, Milwaukee, WI, 53201. 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 41-2008607 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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