The Peery Foundation is a private foundation based in

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, US. According to its website, it "primarily invests in early to mid-stage social entrepreneurs who are effectively addressing the issues of poverty." It funds local organizations in the Bay Area as well as organizations working to combat poverty and its ill-effects worldwide.

Operations

Criteria for funding organizations

The Peery Foundation has four portfolios of grantees: Local, Regional, Global, and Ecosystems. According to their website, they use different criteria for grantees in each portfolio. There are three broad aspects to the criteria used in all portfolios: ''people'' (the people running the organization being funded), ''idea'' (the relative importance of the idea, and whether the organization can pull it off), and ''impact'' (how many people will be impacted by the idea).

Organizations funded by Peery Foundation

Here are some of the organizations in the Peery Foundation portfolios:

Reception

Charity evaluator

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described the Peery Foundation as an "impact-focused" grantmaker (alongside the

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). GiveWell stated in 2011 that it would consider the list of Peery Foundation grantees as part of its list of charities to review to see if they qualified for GiveWell's highest ratings. Peery Foundation has also received mentions on a number of blogs/news websites such as the Huffington Post, the Social Capital Markets blog, and the Modern Giving blog.

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Foundations based in the United States Organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area 1978 establishments in California