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Perlman Family 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.

$355k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 80
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$22k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Perlman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$355k45%
FY202310$532k30%
FY202265$1.6M28%
FY202180$1.6M51%
FY202045$2.0M49%
FY201949$2.2M33%
FY201840$2.0M28%
FY201746$1.8Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.2MYouth Development$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$1.6MCivil Rights$835kInternational$575kFood & Nutrition$481kHealth$412kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 134 grantees
All grantees of Perlman Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Social Justice Learning Institute$781,802519%
The Global Orphan Project Inc$533,65052%
College Access Plan$507,354435%
Food on Foot$476,16188%
Jewish Free Loan Association$400,00028%
Minds Matter of Los Angeles Inc$396,922442%
New Economics for Women$390,00036%
Thrive Scholars$347,28351%
La Family Housing Corporation$270,00040%
All Ways Up Foundation$260,000416%
Del Aire Baptist Church$220,0004n/a
Academy of Media Arts Foundation$217,500352%
Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc$203,30022%
Homeboy Industries$201,00041%
The Andrew McDonough B Foundation$200,00012%
Friends of the Children$197,62931%
Minds Matter Colorado Inc$197,318511%
Choice Group Inc$164,953421%
Determined to Succeed$164,324514%
Krimson and Kreme Inc$159,137567%
826la$152,98752%
Minds Matter of Cleveland Ohio Inc$148,539426%
Miracles for Kids Inc$131,59731%
April Parker Foundation Inc$130,03538%
South Central Scholars Foundation$120,0001n/a
Operation Jump Start$119,91755%
Onegeneration$119,84641%
Mountain Trails Foundation$110,00026%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco$102,28922%
Community Partners$97,53850%
Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network$97,350410%
College Match$89,6913n/a
Village for Vets$82,50035%
National Health Foundation$81,00031%
No One Left Behind$75,00010%
Watts Labor Community Action Committee$72,00020%
BOSS Inc$69,82547%
Young Eisner Scholars$66,33551%
Alliance for Children's Rights$65,00021%
VETS Inc$60,0002n/a
Denver Kids Inc$60,00041%
Chrysalis$60,0002n/a
Minds Matter of Philadelphia Inc$57,755412%
Access Opportunity$51,78534%
Shields for Families$50,96230%
Elevate New York Inc$50,30031%
Garner Road Community Center$50,000411%
Denver Urban Scholars$46,31522%
All for Kids Organization$46,00020%
A Place Called Home$45,35820%
Mass Liberation$44,00034%
Treasures Ministries$43,50034%
Bridge Project$40,9782n/a
Big Sunday$40,36013%
Community Development Finance$40,00029%
Jewish Educational Loan Fund Inc$37,88912%
Jvs Socal$36,12410%
Avalon-Carver Community Center$35,00011%
Community Development Technologies Center$31,47021%
Renaissance Youth Center$30,00030%
Ready to Succeed$28,81631%
American Friends of Anatevka Inc$26,00012%
Next One Up Foundation Inc$25,69541%
Door of Hope$25,50030%
The YESS Institute$25,02532%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center$25,00010%
Canary Impact Lab Inc$25,00010%
The People Concern$25,00020%
Chicano & Latino Youth Leadership Project$24,74217%
Jovenes Inc$23,00020%
Advancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc$23,00011%
Legacy la Youth Development Corp$21,38320%
Positive Results Center$21,00022%
Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc$20,47822%
Saving Innocence Inc$20,23320%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc$20,16520%
Better Youth Inc$20,00015%
Foundation for Women Warriors$20,00012%
Alexandria House$19,65231%
Thinkwatts Foundation$19,55312%
Defy Ventures Inc$19,50010%
Seen and Heard$19,03315%
The Salvation Army$17,5002n/a
Ghetto Film School la Inc$15,9001n/a
First Star Inc$15,00021%
Partners for Children South La$15,00020%
Foothill Unity Center Inc$15,00010%
HEBREW FREE LOAN OF New Jersey INC$15,00013%
La-Mas Inc$14,00021%
Housing Works$13,00010%
100 Black Men of Middle Tn Inc$12,50041%
College Admissions Made Possible$12,50031%
Zoe International$12,25010%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment$11,88710%
Sharsheret Inc$10,02210%
Proyecto Pastoral$10,00010%
The Get Together Foundation$10,00015%
Downtown Women's Center$10,00010%
Next Generation Scholars Inc$10,00021%
Environmental Charter Schools$10,00010%
Claris Health$10,00011%
Pathway From Boys to Men Inc$10,000110%
Union Station Homeless Services$10,00010%
North Valley Caring Services$10,00020%
Extraordinary Families$10,00010%
Special Service for Groups Inc$10,00020%
College Access Partnership Inc$9,40017%
New Rising Star Community Support Corporation$9,00021%
Phoenix Jewish Free Loan Association$8,75511%
Child Care Resource Center Inc$8,21610%
A Sense of Home$8,00010%
Backfield in Motion$7,50021%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Austin Inc$5,51715%
The Rightway Foundation$5,50010%
Harvest Home Inc$5,00010%
Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities a Ca Non Profit Public Benefit Corp$5,00010%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project$5,00010%
Make Good Inc$5,00011%
Student Movement of Justice and Opportunity$5,0001n/a
Silver Lining Legacy$5,00011%
Seed House Project$5,00013%
On A Mission Inc$5,00012%
Elevate Your G a M E$5,00013%
Uri L'Tzedek Inc$4,00011%
Pasadena Altadena Community Endowment Fund$2,5001n/a
100 Black Men of Los Angeles Inc$2,50015%
Nehemiah Project La Inc$2,50011%
Be the Change Venture$2,0291n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,80010%
Wayside Christian Church$1,5001n/a
Giving Adolescents New Goals Inc$1,5001n/a
Journey House Inc$1,50010%
Linking Partnership Opportunities (Lpo) Foundation$1,5001n/a
Community Impact Corporation$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Perlman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSocial Justice Learning Institute: $781,802 over 5y, 19% of budgetThe Global Orphan Project Inc: $533,650 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCollege Access Plan: $507,354 over 4y, 35% of budgetFood on Foot: $476,161 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetJewish Free Loan Association: $400,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetMinds Matter of Los Angeles Inc: $396,922 over 4y, 42% of budgetNew Economics for Women: $390,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetThrive Scholars: $347,283 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLa Family Housing Corporation: $270,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAll Ways Up Foundation: $260,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetAcademy of Media Arts Foundation: $217,500 over 3y, 52% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Society Inc: $203,300 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $201,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Andrew McDonough B Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFriends of the Children: $197,629 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMinds Matter Colorado Inc: $197,318 over 5y, 11% of budgetChoice Group Inc: $164,953 over 4y, 21% of budgetDetermined to Succeed: $164,324 over 5y, 14% of budgetKrimson and Kreme Inc: $159,137 over 5y, 67% of budget826la: $152,987 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMinds Matter of Cleveland Ohio Inc: $148,539 over 4y, 26% of budgetMiracles for Kids Inc: $131,597 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetApril Parker Foundation Inc: $130,035 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetOperation Jump Start: $119,917 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetOnegeneration: $119,846 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMountain Trails Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco: $102,289 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Partners: $97,538 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: $97,350 over 4y, 10% of budgetVillage for Vets: $82,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNational Health Foundation: $81,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWatts Labor Community Action Committee: $72,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOSS Inc: $69,825 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $66,335 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAlliance for Children's Rights: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDenver Kids Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMinds Matter of Philadelphia Inc: $57,755 over 4y, 12% of budgetAccess Opportunity: $51,785 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetShields for Families: $50,962 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetElevate New York Inc: $50,300 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGarner Road Community Center: $50,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetDenver Urban Scholars: $46,315 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAll for Kids Organization: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Place Called Home: $45,358 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMass Liberation: $44,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTreasures Ministries: $43,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBig Sunday: $40,360 over 1y, 3.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 119.

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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.

Weingart FoundationCA54.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Change Reaction · S Mark Taper Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Perlman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Perlman Family Foundation 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.

About Perlman Family Foundation

How much does Perlman Family Foundation give?
Perlman Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $355,447 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Perlman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Youth Development (14%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Perlman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Social Justice Learning Institute ($782k), The Global Orphan Project Inc ($534k), College Access Plan ($507k).
Does Perlman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Perlman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Perlman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Weingart Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is Perlman Family Foundation based?
Perlman Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 173 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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