Period Inc
Portland, OR · EIN 47-2438066. Reported 27 grants totalling $402,693 to 27 organizations across tax years 2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Period Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E21) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,524. Half of what it reported fell between $6,283 and $16,415; the smallest was $5,253 and the largest $73,763. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
27 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $402,693 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Marilyn | Las Vegas, NV | $73,763 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Good Plus Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $53,392 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Emporia Public Library | Emporia, KS | $37,620 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ochsner Clinical School Branch of Amwa | New Orleans, LA | $29,569 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alliance of Border Collabratives LLC | El Paso, TX | $19,030 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Idaho State University | Pocatello, ID | $19,030 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Stomp Inc | Macon, GA | $16,415 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Decatur City Schools Board of Education | Decatur, AL | $12,554 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Olathe Public Schools Foundation | Olathe, KS | $12,554 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medical Students for Choice | Philadelphia, PA | $12,104 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Flow | Los Angeles, CA | $11,224 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Moms Helping Moms Foundation Inc | Warren, NJ | $7,745 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Torrance Unified School District | Torrance, CA | $7,552 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Society of Human Engagement and Business Alignment Resource Center | East Hartford, CT | $7,524 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boise Public Schools Education Foundation Inc | Boise, ID | $7,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dover High School | Dover, AR | $7,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition Inc | Key West, FL | $7,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lincoln Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization | Montgomery, TX | $7,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Perry Lecompton Elementary School PTO | Lecompton, KS | $7,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization | Portland, OR | $7,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health One Enterprises | Bethany, CT | $6,283 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Resource Center | Nashville, TN | $6,264 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girl Scouts Heart of the South | Memphis, TN | $6,264 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boyd County Public School Foundation for Children Inc | Ashland, KY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Her Village Inc | New York, NY | $5,449 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miami-Dade Association of Black Social Workers | Opa, FL | $5,280 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Simply United Together Global Inc | Hiram, GA | $5,253 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Project Marilyn Inc
MENSTRUAL HEALTH AND EQUITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 27 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
18% of its giving went to organizations in Nevada. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Find more funders like Period Inc
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,524 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nevada.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Related guides
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Period Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2175 Nw Raleigh Street 110, Portland, OR, 97210.
EIN 47-2438066 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email [email protected] and we will correct it.