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Perl Nelson Family 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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$40kHealth$40kCivil Rights$40kCommunity Improvement$31kPhilanthropy$28kPublic Benefit$25kEmployment$23kEnvironment$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$734k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$5,000
CLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$5,000
SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC$2,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$2,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$2,000
TIDES CENTER$2,000
DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER$1,500
THE H E ART PROJECT$1,500
A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE INC$1,500
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$1,500
IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA$1,000
EDUCATE$1,000
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC$1,000
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $2k → 14%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $2k → 16%LIFEWIRE: $500 → 9%TIDES CENTER: $800 → 10%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$208k · 31 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
41

Total granted

$208k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+10%

Still filing today

90%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
InternationalHealthCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +254%
  • SG
    SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +234%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • GG
    Ground Game Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • AA
    All Americans Vote
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    ACCELERATE CHANGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
7
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
8
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
9
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
12
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life After Release Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Domestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Construc…Lgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Mentoring ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,892

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.

04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
58/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIAT…HOPEWELL FUND — $5,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDTIDES FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION+8 more — $7,250 · Philanthropy+8 moreTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,500 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PA…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…All Americans Vote — $5,000 · Civil RightsAll American…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE C…THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsTHE LOVELAND…+2 more — $1,000 · Civil RightsSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC — $18,500 · EducationSHE-CAN GL…WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $3,500 · EducationWORKING AM…THE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL — $3,000 · EducationTHE GIRLS'…ROOM TO READ — $1,000 · Education+2 more — $1,250 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $5,100 · HealthPLANNED PA…NEXLEAF ANALYTICS — $4,000 · HealthNEXLEAF AN…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $3,500 · HealthAMYOTROPHI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,200 · Health+3 more — $500 · HealthEducate — $10,000 · InternationalEducateA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $4,500 · InternationalA JEWISH …The Global Uplift Project — $3,000 · InternationalThe Globa…ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 · InternationalCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · InternationalDASRA — $1,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 · InternationalRISING WORLDWIDE — $1,000 · International+4 more — $1,600 · International+4 moreNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $11,500 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCTIDES CENTER — $13,300 · OtherTIDES CENTERSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,500 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $8,001 · OtherSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONCLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 · OtherGround Game Fund — $10,000 · OtherGround Game FundTECHNOVATION — $11,000 · OtherTECHNOVATIONSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $9,400 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY+35 more — $37,949 · Other+35 moreAda's Cafe — $23,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$45,250Civil Rights$32,000Education$27,250Health$26,300International$25,100Other$114,650Employment$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAda's Cafe — $23,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC — $18,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $13,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOVATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEducate — $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $9,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $8,001 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Americans Vote — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEXLEAF ANALYTICS — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC — $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Global Uplift Project — $3,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COMMUNITY CLINIC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarambee House Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Trans Nation LLC — $1,800 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetEMERGENCY RELEASE FUND — $1,600 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDASRA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISING WORLDWIDE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO READ — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationRadhika & Ambarish Ma…ImpactassetsincThe James Irvine Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Amalgamated Charitabl…Open Society InstituteGs Donor Advised Phil…The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Radhika & Ambarish Malpani Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · The James Irvine Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett 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 Perl Nelson Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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