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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEL AIRE BAPTIST CHURCH | $60,000 |
| APRIL PARKER FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| The Global Orphan Project Inc | $58,045 |
| INDIVIDUALS-LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQ | $34,368 |
| CANARY IMPACT LAB INC | $25,000 |
| DEFY VENTURES INC | $19,500 |
| FRIENDS OUTSIDE IN LOS ANGELES | $18,500 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR STEPPING FORWARD | $8,254 |
| A SENSE OF HOME | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| THE RIGHT WAY FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| CARE PORTAL LLC | $5,105 |
| MAKE GOOD INC | $5,000 |
| ALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SJSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2022 · $782k · revenue +261%
- TGTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $534k · revenue +132%
- CACOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN4× · 2017–2020 · $507k · revenue +601% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- TATHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +28%
- SCSOUTH CENTRAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $120k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - UTAHone grant, 2020 · $110k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.
Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Our services include mentoring, educational & cultural enrichment activities, and college access guidance. Partnership Scholars Program offers students the skills, knowledge and support they need to prepare for, enter, and graduate from…
Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
Sharefest equips youth facing significant barriers to achieve economic success.
United friends of the children empowers current and former foster youth on their journey to self-sufficiency through service-enriched education and housing programs, advocacy and consistent relationships with a community of people who care.
Da Vinci Schools: LA County consists of a public charter school, RISE High, which exists to provide our students an individualized education through the coalescence of their personal and professional goals, their interests, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities a Ca Non Profit Public Benefit Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
128 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. 128 of the 173 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Academy of Media Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Determined to Succeed ↗
- Who funds KRIMSON AND KREME INC ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds APRIL PARKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MATCH ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE FOR VETS ↗
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.
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
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 Perlman Family Foundation 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.
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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