· Private foundation
Perlin Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEBREW UNION COLLEGE - JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION | $100,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $70,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL | $36,000 |
| COMMENTARY INC | $18,000 |
| JUDAISM ALIVE | $10,000 |
| HILLEL AT VIRGINIA TECH | $5,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY HILLEL | $3,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION8× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +31%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation5× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +17%- LCLorton Community Action Center Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE B NAI SHALOMone grant, 2017 · $36k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- JRJACOB RADER MARCUS CENTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVESone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
Guided by jewish values and heritage, the edlavitch dc jewish community center (edcjcc) engages individuals and families through its cultural, recreational, educational, and social justice programs by welcoming people of all backgrounds to…
Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lorton Community Action Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAURENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT VA TECH INC ↗
- Who funds George Mason University Hillel ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Perlin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perlin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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