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Marvin J Pertzik Foundation at a glance

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Marvin J Pertzik Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$1,100
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SHOLOM FOUNDATION ST PAUL$6,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM$5,000
TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL$3,000
SHOLOM FOUNDATION MINNEAPOLIS$3,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$2,500
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$2,500
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER ST PAUL$2,000
MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MN$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UPPER MIDWEST MERKOS ACADEMY: $5k → 6%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $6k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $5k → 9%MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MN: $4k → 6%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $5k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $5k → 9%JEWISH COMM CENTER ASSN: $50k → 17%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $4k → 9%JEWISH COMM CENTER ASSN: $50k → 17%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $4k → 9%JEWISH COMM CENTER ASSN: $30k → 17%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM: $4k → 9%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $3k → 9%JEWISH COMM CENTER ASSN: $30k → 17%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $3k → 9%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $3k → 9%SHOLOM FOUNDATION ST PAUL: $6k → 14%SHOLOM FOUNDATION ST PAUL: $6k → 14%SHOLOM FOUNDATION MINNEAPOLIS: $3k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION MINNEAPOLIS: $3k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $27k → 14%ADATH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $25k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST PAUL: $20k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FED OF GREATER ST PAUL: $10k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%CHABAD ACADEMY INC: $10k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $10k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%JEWISH FED OF GREATER ST PAUL: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL: $8k → 14%CHABAD ACADEMY INC: $7k → 14%CHABAD ACADEMY INC: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL: $5k → 14%JEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL: $5k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 14%CHABAD ACADEMY INC: $5k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $3k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $3k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL: $3k → 14%ADATH ISREAL SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 23 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
2

Total granted

$541k
$6k

Still filing today

43%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +97%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +96%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • UM
    UPPER MIDWEST MERKOS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMM RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MN
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

The purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.

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2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation

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…

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8
Hillel Foundation University of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Religion
9
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

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…

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10
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas

As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.

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11
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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.

Arts & Culture
12
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMM CENTER ASSN: $160,000 · OtherJEWISH COMM CENTER ASSNIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $42,500 · OtherBETH JACOB CONGREGATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF ST PAUL: $40,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF ST PAULJEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAUL: $38,800 · OtherJEWISH COMM OF GREATER ST PAULCHABAD ACADEMY INC: $32,500 · OtherCHABAD ACADEMY INCIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+15 more: $82,200 · Other+15 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC: $22,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationTHE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $8,000 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $450 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $9,500 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $8,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $100 · HealthHIAS INC: $100 · International
Other$496,000Education$30,000Philanthropy$29,000Arts & Culture$23,950Community Improvement$9,500Food & Nutrition$8,000Health$100International$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • 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 MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HIAS 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin J Pertzik Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin J Pertzik Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Marvin J Pertzik Foundation?

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.

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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