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Pearlman Geller Family Foundation Fka Jerome & Faith Pearlman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.4MCommunity Improvement$2.0MHuman Services$723kArts & Culture$600kHousing & Shelter$548kInternational$548kYouth Development$508kEducation$479kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $705k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$325,000
CITY OF HOPE$225,000
CEDARS SINAI RESEARCH FOUNDATION$200,000
CEDARS SINAI RESEARCH FOUNDATION$120,000
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION$100,000
CHRYSALIS CENTER$60,000
PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS$45,000
PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS$20,000
PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS$20,000
SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$15,000
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY$10,000
THE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO$10,000
WALK WITH SALLY$10,000
BET TZEDEK$10,000
LANGE FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $15k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $15k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $15k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%PALISADES PRIDE: $10k → 14%PALISADES PRIDE: $10k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $15k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $15k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $30k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $30k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $50k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 44 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
21

Total granted

$9.6M
$783k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BB
    BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $560k · revenue +114%
  • TJ
    THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $525k · revenue +50%
  • PE
    PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $424k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $180k · revenue +18%
  • SM
    SIMMS MANN CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • PP
    PACIFIC PALISADES HOMELESS TASK FORCE CO THE PEOPLE'S CONCERN
    one grant, 2022 · $63k
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
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
2
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
3
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Art Share Los Angeles

Promoting culturals arts in los angeles including education, gallery exhibits, artist living and work spaces theater, art and community festivals, artistic development and community outreach.

Arts & Culture
6
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
7
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
9
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
10
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County

As a public interest law firm, NLSLA changes lives and transforms communities. Through a combination of individual representation, high impact litigation, and public policy advocacy, NLSLA combats the immediate and long-lasting effects of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Carson Cats Rescue. 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

46 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. 46 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
38/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,660,500 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYCITY OF HOPE: $1,710,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPETHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $525,000 · OtherTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATIONCEDARS SINAI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $320,000 · OtherCHRYSALIS CENTER INC: $247,500 · Other+33 more: $1,894,455 · Other+33 moreBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $560,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $180,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $40,000 · Health+1 more: $20,000 · HealthSharefest Community Development Inc: $120,000 · Human ServicesWALK WITH SALLY: $90,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $60,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesPRESENT NOW: $40,000 · Human Services+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS: $423,600 · EducationJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $160,000 · Education826LA: $55,000 · EducationHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $250,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $120,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $80,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureACTOR'S GANG INC: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureM F PLACE INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,357,455Health$800,000Human Services$650,000Education$638,600Youth Development$528,000Arts & Culture$439,000Housing & Shelter$290,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $560,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS: $423,600 over 8y, 16% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $275,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $250,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetM F PLACE INC: $250,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER INC: $247,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $200,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $160,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $150,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPS ARTS: $140,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSharefest Community Development Inc: $120,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $120,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWALK WITH SALLY: $90,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $90,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $85,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826LA: $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVENICE ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $41,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENT NOW: $40,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMONWEAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPalisades Pride Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds M F PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
  • Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PS ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Sharefest Community Development Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds WALK WITH SALLY ↗
  • Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
  • Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds 826LA ↗
  • Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD 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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Liberty Hill Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…The Green FoundationSnap FoundationPerenchio FoundationElbridge Stuart Found…
California Community FoundationCA33.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Green Foundation · Snap Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart 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 Pearlman Geller Family Foundation Fka Jerome & Faith Pearlman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pearlman Geller Family Foundation Fka Jerome & Faith Pearlman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 93%
  • Chrysalis Center Inc: 93% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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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Find your warmest path to Pearlman Geller Family Foundation Fka Jerome & Faith Pearlman 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 66 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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