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Perkins Hunter Foundation

Name: Perkins Hunter Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

123
grants reported: $2.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Tipping Point Community4 grants · $750,000
San Francisco University High Schoo2 grants · $190,000
San Francisco Educational Fund3 grants · $135,100
Remake2 grants · $100,000
La Luz Bilingual Center2 grants · $85,000
Voteorg2 grants · $80,000
Freedom Forward1 grant · $75,000
Battery Foundation3 grants · $70,000
Tides Foundation2 grants · $60,000
Teach for America-Bay Area2 grants · $60,000

Giving over time

$552,650

2022

$625,600

2023

$423,500

2024

$1.2M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 123 grants.

$300,000
Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General use
$200,000
Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$125,000
San Francisco University High Schoo · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$125,000
Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$125,000
Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$75,000
Freedom Forward · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$75,000
Remake · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$65,000
La Luz Bilingual Center · Sonoma, CA · 2025
General use
$65,000
San Francisco University High Schoo · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$60,000
San Francisco Educational Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$50,100
San Francisco Educational Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$50,000
Voteorg · Oakland, CA · 2024
General use
$40,000
Technoserve · Washington, DC · 2025
General use
$35,000
Kqed Northern Ca Public Radio · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$35,000
Population Media Center · Shelburne, VT · 2025
General use
$35,000
Teach for America-Bay Area · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General use
$35,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$35,000
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$30,000
Battery Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$30,000
Believe in Sf Action · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$30,000
San Francisco General Hospital · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$30,000
Voteorg · Oakland, CA · 2022
General use
$27,650
Teach for America · New York, NY · 2022
General use
$25,000
Accountability Counsel · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Bay Educational Fund · Oakland, CA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Care Message · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$25,000
Cultivar Sausalito Restaurant · Sausalito, CA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Emerge Global · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Media Matters for America · Washington, DC · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Muso · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
National Council of Jewish Women · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
General Use
$25,000
Remake · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$25,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$25,000
Turnout Activism · Cambridge, MA · 2025
General use
$25,000
Care Message · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$25,000
Teach for America-Bay Area · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General use
$25,000
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
General use
$25,000
Caremessage · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General use
$25,000
San Francisco Educational Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General use
$25,000
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2022
General use
$20,000
Engenderhealth · New York, NY · 2025
General use
$20,000
La Luz Bilingual Center · Sonoma, CA · 2024
General use
$20,000
Vote Latino · Washington, DC · 2024
General use
$20,000
Battery Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$20,000
Greenbelt Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$20,000
Philanthropy Workshop West · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$20,000
Thacher School · Ojai, CA · 2023
General use
$20,000
Battery Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General use
$20,000
Hinsdale Humane Society · Hinsdale, IL · 2022
General use
$17,000
Environmental Voter Project · Boston, MA · 2022
General use
$15,000
Feel Good Action · Seattle, WA · 2025
General use
$15,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General use
$15,000
San Francisco Symphony · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$15,000
Mediacal Teams International · Portland, OR · 2022
General use
$12,000
Forward Global · Washington, DC · 2025
General Use
$10,000
All May See Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Basic Fund · Oakland, CA · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Compassion Choices · Portland, OR · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Connected Sf · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Democracy Forward Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Greenlight America · Washington, DC · 2025
General use
$10,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2025
General use
$10,000
Lawyers Defending American Homjeown · Boston, MA · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Meto · Washington, DC · 2025
General Use
$10,000
Safe and Sound · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$10,000
Sonoma Valley Education Fdtn · Sonoma, CA · 2025
General use
$10,000
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General use
$10,000
Wilkes Bashford Helping Hands Emerg · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$10,000
World Monuments Fund · Ny, NY · 2025
General use
$10,000
Foster America · Boston, MA · 2024
General use
$10,000
Greenlight America · Washington, DC · 2024
General use
$10,000
San Francisco Giants Community Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$10,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2023
General use
$10,000
Foster America · Boston, MA · 2023
General use
$10,000
Ideoorg · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$10,000
Safe and Sound · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$10,000
San Francisco Giants Community Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General use
$10,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2022
General use
$10,000
Jack London State Park · Glen Ellen, CA · 2022
General use
$10,000
San Francisco Parent Coalition · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General use
$10,000
Up 2 US Foundation · Wheaton, MD · 2022
General use
$8,000
California Interfaith Power Light · Oakland, CA · 2025
General Use
$8,000
Interfaith Power Light · Oakland, CA · 2025
General Use
$8,000
Sonoma Conservatory of Dance · Sonoma, CA · 2025
General Use
$8,000
San Francisco Giants Community Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General use
$7,000
Good Samaritan · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$7,000
Ten Strands · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$7,000
American Conservatory Theater · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General use
$7,000
Sonoma Valley Authors Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2024
General use
$5,500
Sonoma Valley Authors Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2023
General use
$5,000
Cal Matters · Sacremento, CA · 2025
General Use
$5,000
End of Life Choices New York · New York, NY · 2025
General Use
$5,000
Justice at Last · San Carlos, CA · 2025
General Use
$5,000
San Francisco Beautiful · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$5,000
San Francisco Ct Appointed Special · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$5,000
Saving the City · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General Use
$5,000
Seacology · Berkley, CA · 2025
General Use
$5,000
Stand · Concord, CA · 2025
General use
$5,000
Sonoma Valley Education Fdtn · Sonoma, CA · 2024
General use

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.