· Private foundation
Marvin J Pertzik Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SHOLOM FOUNDATION ST PAUL | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM | $5,000 |
| SHOLOM FOUNDATION MINNEAPOLIS | $3,000 |
| TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL | $3,000 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION | $2,500 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION | $2,500 |
| MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MN | $2,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER ST PAUL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $2,000 |
| RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,750 |
| JEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL | $1,500 |
| ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,200 |
| MINNESOTA HILLEL | $1,100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE7× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +97%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +105%
- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UMUPPER MIDWEST MERKOS ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- JCJEWISH COMM RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MNone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
Hillel, the jewish student center at the university of wisconsin-madison, serves over 5,000 jewish students and faculty. hillel provides a home and support to various independent student organizations. every expression of jewish life is…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MinnPost ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marvin J Pertzik Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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