About
The Peery Foundation is a Palo Alto-based family foundation established in 1978 by Richard Peery. Our mission is to strengthen youth and families to build lives of dignity and self-reliance. We do this by investing in and serving social entrepreneurs and other leaders who are working to empower youth and families in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. The Peery Foundation primarily invests in early to mid-stage social entrepreneurs who are effectively addressing the issues of poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time analyzing patterns in our giving over the years, and have emerged with four portfolios of grantees: Local, Regional, Global, and Ecosystems. We have a variety of different criteria we use to choose our partners. However, each portfolio has its respective goals and differences. They all share an overarching set of values and themes around the people, the idea, and the impact. The People: first and foremost we invest in people. This includes the entrepreneur, their
Investment Focus
- Stages
- pre-seed
- Location
- Palo Alto, US
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