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Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 29
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$116k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$38k50%
FY20248$21k38%
FY20237$34k43%
FY20221$5k0%
FY202123$71k39%
FY20207$12k29%
FY201929$77k79%
FY201815$31k67%
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$117kEducation$83kArts & Culture$81kReligion$18kPhilanthropy$10kEnvironment$8kHuman Services$4kAnimals$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Jewish Health$106,71690%
Opera Colorado$20,95530%
Colorado Symphony Association$9,00030%
University of Colorado Foundation$7,50010%
Sarah Lawrence College$7,20040%
Foothills Art Center Inc$6,80020%
Denver Art Museum$6,50030%
Congregation Hebrew Educational Alliance$5,1252n/a
Easter Seals Colorado$4,25020%
National Repertory Orchestra Inc$4,00040%
Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Jewish Health$106,71690%
Opera Colorado$20,95530%
Colorado Symphony Association$9,00030%
University of Colorado Foundation$7,50010%
Sarah Lawrence College$7,20040%
Foothills Art Center Inc$6,80020%
Denver Art Museum$6,50030%
Congregation Hebrew Educational Alliance$5,1252n/a
Easter Seals Colorado$4,25020%
National Repertory Orchestra Inc$4,00040%
Old Town Artisan Studio Inc$4,00020%
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc$3,55040%
Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation$2,75040%
Colorado Open Lands$2,50010%
Desert Cities Bridge Foundation$2,0001n/a
Denver Scholarship Foundation$1,98020%
Partners in Literacy$1,8001n/a
Evergreen Rotary Foundation Inc$1,50010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$1,50010%
Humane World for Animals Inc$1,25010%
Friends of Slavens School Inc$1,00011%
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc$5001n/a
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$36010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$25010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$25010%
Craig Hospital Foundation$25010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20010%
Hias Inc$18010%
Feeding America$10010%
Meals on Wheels$1001n/a

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Jewish Health: $106,716 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Colorado: $20,955 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Symphony Association: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Lawrence College: $7,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFoothills Art Center Inc: $6,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Colorado: $4,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Repertory Orchestra Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOld Town Artisan Studio Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Botanic Gardens Inc: $3,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKappa Kappa Gamma Foundation: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Scholarship Foundation: $1,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvergreen Rotary Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Slavens School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation

How much does Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation give?
Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $38,395 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (22%).
Who are Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Jewish Health ($107k), Opera Colorado ($21k), Colorado Symphony Association ($9k).
Does Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable 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 Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation based?
Leonard & Alice Perlmutter Charitable Foundation is based in CO.

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 76 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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