· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of PEARLMAN GELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA JEROME & FAITH PEARLMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $705k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| BET TZEDEK | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| WALK WITH SALLY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
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.
Your 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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- BBBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $560k · revenue +114%
- TJTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $525k · revenue +50%
- PEPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS8× · 2017–2024 · $424k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $180k · revenue +18%
- SMSIMMS MANN CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k
- PPPACIFIC PALISADES HOMELESS TASK FORCE CO THE PEOPLE'S CONCERNone grant, 2022 · $63k
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.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
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.
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,…
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…
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.
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…
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 66 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 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 LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD 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: 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
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 Pearlman Geller Family Foundation Fka Jerome & Faith Pearlman 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.
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% 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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