· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $31,500 |
| AM SHALOM | $16,620 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN SYNAGOGUE BETH EL | $6,810 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $2,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK STRINGS | $2,000 |
| WBEZ | $1,250 |
| LURIE CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $950 |
| CAMP RAMAH | $750 |
| WORLDWIDE FUND FOR NATURE | $700 |
| WTTW | $600 |
| THE ARK | $600 |
| MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $600 |
| WFMT | $550 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% 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
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2019–2025 · $192k · revenue +57%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +17%- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum6× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NRNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +6%
- UUSCSone grant, 2019 · $1k
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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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…
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph Perlman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Perlman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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