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Pearlstein Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pearlstein Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$183kAnimals$121kReligion$15kArts & Culture$6kInternational$4kPhilanthropy$3kEducation$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$665k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$28,389
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH$10,000
BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY$9,800
HADASSAH$3,000
JAY G COHEN MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT FUND$1,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL$560
CHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION$500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIV OF PENN: $46k → 22%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1k → 17%PALM BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 11%ST JOE MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 17%JAY G COHEN MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 11%LIFE BRIDGE HEALTH: $27k → 19%UNIV OF PENN: $28k → 22%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1k → 17%JAY G COHEN MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT FUND: $1k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY: $14k → 11%SINAI HOSPITAL: $26k → 19%UPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $20k → 22%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1k → 17%UNIV OF MARYLAND - J COHEN MEMORIAL: $1k → 11%BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $13k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $24k → 19%UPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY: $5k → 22%UNIV OF MARYLAND - J COHEN MEMORIAL: $1k → 11%BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $12k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $21k → 19%UNIV OF PENN: $5k → 22%JAY G COHEN MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 11%BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 11%SINAI HOSPITAL: $20k → 19%UPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY: $3k → 22%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%JAY G COHEN MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 11%SINAI HOSPITAL: $13k → 19%UPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $3k → 22%HADASSAH: $1k → 17%JAY G COHEN MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 11%BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%UPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $2k → 22%HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%HADASSAH: $4k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%HADASSAH: $3k → 17%BETH TIFLOH SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 19%ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION: $2k → 19%TEAM UP FOR 1 FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 16 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$412k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+53%

Still filing today

19%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $122k · revenue +41%
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +78%
  • SH
    SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $59k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +53%
  • SJ
    ST JOE MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +58%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 25 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $122,000 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INCSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $58,600 · HealthSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC+1 more: $1,250 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $79,529 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $25,000 · OtherUPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINEHADASSAH: $11,680 · OtherHADASSAHUPENN SCHOOL OF VETERINARY: $8,000 · OtherTEAM UP FOR 1 FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Other+13 more: $20,526 · Other+13 moreTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $86,553 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF B…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,300 · InternationalMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 · Arts & Culture
Health$181,850Other$150,235Animals$86,553International$4,300Arts & Culture$1,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $122,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $86,553 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC: $58,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $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 LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pearlstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pearlstein Foundation Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Pearlstein Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pearlstein Foundation Inc 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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