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Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Foundation Inc at a glance

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Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$11kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$7kEducation$6kPublic Benefit$5kSocial Science$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$205k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northwestern University$7,000
Palm Beach United Way$2,000
Palm Beach Country Club Foundation$2,000
Princeton University$1,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago$1,000
Palm Beach Civic Association$1,000
The Field Museum of Chicago$500
Harvard Business School$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Harvard Business School: $500 → 16%Autism Speaks: $500 → 17%Planned Parenthood of So Florida: $3k → 11%Mobile Opera: $1k → 19%The Field Museum of Chicago: $1k → 14%Harvard Business School: $500 → 16%New York Presbyterian Fund Inc: $200 → 17%Planned Parenthood of So Florida: $3k → 11%The Field Museum: $500 → 14%Harvard Business School: $500 → 16%Ukrainian Congress Committee of Am: $1k → 17%Planned Parenthood of So Florida: $3k → 11%The Field Museum of Chicago: $500 → 14%Planned Parenthood of So Florida: $2k → 11%Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago: $500 → 14%Palm Beach United Way: $3k → 11%Northwestern University: $7k → 14%Palm Beach Country Club Foundation: $2k → 11%Lyric Opera of Chicago: $1k → 14%Palm Beach Country Club Foundation: $2k → 11%NorthShore University HealthSystem: $2k → 14%Palm Beach United Way: $2k → 11%Northwestern University: $500 → 14%Palm Beach United Way: $2k → 11%Palm Beach Country Club Foundation: $2k → 11%Palm Beach United Way: $2k → 11%United Way of the Palm Beaches: $2k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Country Club Foundation: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Civic Association: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Country Club Foundation: $1k → 11%Palm Beach Synagogue: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$47k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +22%
  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +8%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +24%
  • EH
    Endeavor Health Clinical Operationsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +306%
  • UW
    United Way of the Palm Beaches
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
2
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
4
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
8
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOU…The Field Museum of Chicago: $1,500 · OtherThe Field Museum of ChicagoUnited Way of the Palm Beaches: $1,500 · OtherUnited Way of the Palm Beac…Harvard Business School: $1,500 · OtherHarvard Business SchoolUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $1,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTE…PALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations: $1,500 · HealthEndeavor Health Clini…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $8,500 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Bea…Northwestern University: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern U…The Trustees of Princeton University: $6,000 · EducationThe Trustee…Palm Beach Civic Association Inc: $5,000 · Community ImprovementPalm Beac…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNORTON MU…Lyric Opera of Chicago: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Ope…MOBILE OPERA INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMOBILE OP…FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $500 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUS…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $500 · Youth Development
Other$14,000Health$11,200Philanthropy$8,500Recreation & Sports$7,500Education$6,000Community Improvement$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Youth Development$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE OPERA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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