· Private foundation
Lee Perelstine Kagan Charitable Tr
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE | $17,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN | $12,500 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $5,500 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $5,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM | $3,750 |
| ISREAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $3,250 |
| KIDS KICKING CANCER ISRAEL | $3,250 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BSHVIL HAMACHAR | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AKIM USA INC | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAALEI TIKVAH | $3,000 |
| SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER IN JERU | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SEEACH SOD | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +614%- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +127%
- AIAdi Israel Foundation Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGENone grant, 2020 · $8k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +198%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
To help and support children with rare sybfromes and disorders and their families. to help and support children victimized and traumatized by terror attacks and thier families.
To further jewish education in israel
To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…
To provide guidance and support to families with ill or physically disabled family members
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 53 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 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BSHVIL HAMACHAR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAM INC ↗
- Who funds Adi Israel Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lee Perelstine Kagan Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee Perelstine Kagan Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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