Illinois · Private foundation
Joseph Perlman Family Foundation
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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $638k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Joseph Perlman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $73k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $61k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $54k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $58k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $51k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $52k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $54k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $192,150 | 7 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $100,050 | 7 | n/a |
| North Suburban Synagogue Beth El | $38,977 | 7 | n/a |
| The Night Ministry | $5,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $5,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Ramah Commission Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $1,800 | 6 | 0% |
| MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger | $1,632 | 3 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $1,550 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph Perlman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Karmin Family Charitable Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Joseph Perlman Family Foundation
- How much does Joseph Perlman Family Foundation give?
- Joseph Perlman Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $74,390 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph Perlman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Religion (36%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Joseph Perlman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($192k), Am Shalom ($100k), North Suburban Synagogue Beth El ($39k).
- Does Joseph Perlman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph Perlman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph Perlman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Karmin Family Charitable Trust.
- Where is Joseph Perlman Family Foundation based?
- Joseph Perlman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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