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Perl Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$79kArts & Culture$44kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kCommunity Improvement$12kEducation$12kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$441k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
IF YOU HEARD WHAT I HEARD$3,600
CITY OF HOPE$3,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM$3,000
STAND WITH US$2,500
THE SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT$2,500
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$2,500
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$2,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,500
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA$1,000
JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE$1,000
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS$1,000
THE 1939 SOCIETY$500
BEVERLY HILLS FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 22 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
3

Total granted

$183k
$9k

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +114%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +122%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    5× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GLA
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF HOLOCAUST
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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 War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Yad Vashem Usa Foundation

Yad vashem usa foundation (the organization) is dedicated to support the memorialization and awareness of, and education regarding, the holocaust, as currently overseen, supervised and conducted by yad vashem, the holocaust martyrs and…

Arts & Culture
4
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
5
Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

To promote and financially support the activities of the jewish museum berlin and similar institutions whose mission is to pursue the study of the history and culture of german-speaking jewry.

Education
6
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
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Yad Vashem Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

14 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. 14 of the 29 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INCSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $20,000 · InternationalSurvivor Mitzvah ProjectISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $19,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMCITY OF HOPE: $12,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPETHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $10,500 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONJULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherJULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYAD VASHEM: $6,000 · OtherYAD VASHEMIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMUSEUM OF TOLERENCE: $5,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF TOLERENCELOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE: $5,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE+9 more: $15,410 · Other+9 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $14,493 · Arts & CultureThe United Stat…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIET…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHA…HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION: $11,700 · EducationIf You Heard What I Heard Inc: $3,600 · EducationCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 · Human Services
International$79,000Other$77,910Arts & Culture$29,493Education$15,300Health$10,000Human Services$6,500

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 budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $20,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $14,493 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $11,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIf You Heard What I Heard Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE 1939 CLUB INC: $2,135 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMENS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $1,000 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 FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds Survivor Mitzvah Project ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds If You Heard What I Heard Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE 1939 CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY HILLS FIREMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 29 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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