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Marvin J Pertzik Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Marvin J Pertzik Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureOther
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
FY2024still arriving26$67k38%
FY202317$65k24%
FY202218$101k0%
FY202118$91k0%
FY202018$74k11%
FY201917$69k18%
FY201815$54k0%
FY201716$55kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$213kReligion$170kPhilanthropy$82kInternational$22kHuman Services$19kEducation$13kFood & Nutrition$8kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beth Jacob Congregation$42,5008n/a
Chabad Academy Inc$32,5006n/a
American Friends of Kidum Inc$22,00052%
The Talmud Torah of St Paul$15,00081%
Neighborhood House$9,50070%
Ramsey County Historical Society Inc$9,50080%
Second Harvest Heartland$8,00080%
University of Minnesota Foundation$8,00080%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$8,00080%
Greater Twin Cities United Way$8,00080%
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All grantees of Marvin J Pertzik Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beth Jacob Congregation$42,5008n/a
Chabad Academy Inc$32,5006n/a
American Friends of Kidum Inc$22,00052%
The Talmud Torah of St Paul$15,00081%
Neighborhood House$9,50070%
Ramsey County Historical Society Inc$9,50080%
Second Harvest Heartland$8,00080%
University of Minnesota Foundation$8,00080%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$8,00080%
Greater Twin Cities United Way$8,00080%
Cable Natural History Museum Inc$6,00060%
Sharei Chesed Congregation$3,0002n/a
Minnesota Hillel$2,10020%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$22510%
MinnPost$12510%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$10010%
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$10010%
American Jewish Historical Society$10010%
Hias Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($401k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marvin J Pertzik Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Kidum Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe Talmud Torah of St Paul: $15,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNeighborhood House: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRamsey County Historical Society Inc: $9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Public Television Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Twin Cities United Way: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCable Natural History Museum Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Hillel: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnPost: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Historical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $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 16.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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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Find your warmest path to Marvin J Pertzik Foundation 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.

About Marvin J Pertzik Foundation

How much does Marvin J Pertzik Foundation give?
Marvin J Pertzik Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marvin J Pertzik Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (29%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Marvin J Pertzik Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Beth Jacob Congregation ($43k), Chabad Academy Inc ($33k), American Friends of Kidum Inc ($22k).
Does Marvin J Pertzik Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marvin J Pertzik Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marvin J Pertzik Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
Where is Marvin J Pertzik Foundation based?
Marvin J Pertzik Foundation is based in MN.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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