Practice Focus

Gioia Perugini directs the firm’s philanthropic advisory practice and works with individuals, families, advisors, charitable trusts, and foundations to provide a range of philanthropic and family office services. Her clients rely on her to design and implement charitable giving strategies, research particular charities, negotiate gifts of cash or tangible assets, and coordinate family meetings. Gioia’s practice also specializes in engaging multiple generations in family philanthropy. She also serves as a philanthropic advisor for Family Office clients.

Representative Experience

• Negotiated a significant gift of fine art to a premier cultural institution from a foundation created by the estate of a renowned artist. Worked directly with the trustees and executors to translate the foundation's mission as expressed in the client's will, identified the appropriate charity, completed due diligence on the organization, oversaw appraisals, and led negotiations regarding ownership, copyright, reproductions, and care of the art. She continues to staff the foundation’s ongoing grantmaking, partnerships, and loans for exhibition.
• Worked with the Trustees to design, develop, and staff the grantmaking program for Jane’s Trust from 2003 - 2021. The Trust awarded over $170 million in grants in Massachusetts, northern New England, and Florida in the arts, education, environment, and health and welfare. Gioia's work helped to identify appropriate grantees, conduct due diligence and site visits, communicate with trustees and grantees, and oversee ongoing program development. She oversaw the Trust’s wind down in 2021 and oversees grantmaking for a successor family foundation, Jane’s Trust Foundation.
• Serves as an advisor to Positive Tracks, a national nonprofit that helps youth get active and make change. Gioia helped the founder form Positive Tracks, first as a private operating foundation and then as a public charity. She continues to advise Positive Tracks on management, governance, and strategic growth.
• Works with multigenerational families to design and implement meaningful ways to engage multiple generations in family philanthropy.