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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 FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APRIL PARKER FOUNDATION$60,000
DEL AIRE BAPTIST CHURCH$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
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION$5,000
MAKE GOOD INC$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATHWAY FROM BOYS TO MEN: $10k → 14%Empower Her Network: $55k → 12%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $32k → 12%Empower Her Network: $40k → 12%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $15k → 12%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $5k → 12%Hebrew Free Loan Society: $183k → 17%Hebrew Free Loan Society: $20k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%HARVEST HOME: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $20k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $8k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%SILVER LINING LEGACY: $5k → 14%Alexandria House: $16k → 14%Claris Health: $10k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMIT: $70k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $19k → 14%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $10k → 14%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%SEED HOUSE PROJECT: $5k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $5k → 14%NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES: $5k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $20k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $147k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $133k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $74k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $48k → 14%Jovenes Inc: $13k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $33k → 14%Jovenes Inc: $10k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $30k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $10k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $10k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $7k → 14%AVALON CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $5k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $4k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $5k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $25k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $11k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%Children's Bureau of Southern Calif: $26k → 14%Children's Bureau of Southern Calif: $20k → 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.

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
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 90 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
67

Total granted

$11M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SJ
    SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $782k · revenue +261%
  • TG
    THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $534k · revenue +132%
  • CA
    COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $507k · revenue +601% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +28%
  • SC
    SOUTH CENTRAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $120k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES - UTAH
    one grant, 2020 · $110k
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
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development
2
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

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 Development
3
Los Angeles Youth Network

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…

Human Services
4
Youth Policy Institute Inc

Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.

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5
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
6
Partnership Scholars Program

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…

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7
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

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.

Philanthropy
8
Allies for Every Child Inc

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)

Human Services
9
Fotc - Los Angeles

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…

Education
10
Sharefest Community Development Inc

Sharefest equips youth facing significant barriers to achieve economic success.

Human Services
11
United Friends of the Children

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.

Human Services
12
Da Vinci Schools La County

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works; 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.
04the grantee network

128 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/128
Grantees still filing
88/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN FERNANCO VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $535,000 · OtherSAN FERNANCO VALLEY RESCUE MISSIONUCLA: $455,000 · OtherUCLAJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $400,000 · OtherJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $270,000 · OtherALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION: $260,000 · OtherINDIVIDUALS-LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQ: $254,329 · OtherDEL AIRE BAPTIST CHURCH: $220,000 · Other+80 more: $3,066,746 · Other+80 moreCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $507,354 · EducationCOLLEGE ACCESS P…THRIVE SCHOLARS: $347,283 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSAcademy of Media Arts Foundation: $217,500 · EducationAcademy of Media…Determined to Succeed: $164,324 · EducationDetermined to Su…KRIMSON AND KREME INC: $159,137 · EducationKRIMSON AND KREM…826LA: $152,987 · Education826LACOLLEGE MATCH: $89,691 · EducationDENVER KIDS INC: $60,000 · Education+8 more: $94,216 · EducationMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $396,922 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER …HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $201,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUS…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $197,629 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF TH…MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $197,318 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER …OPERATION JUMP START: $119,917 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION JUM…BOSS Inc: $69,825 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $57,755 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE NEW YORK INC: $50,300 · Youth Development+12 more: $173,880 · Youth Development+12 moreFOOD ON FOOT: $476,161 · Human ServicesFOOD ON FOOTHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $203,300 · Human ServicesHEBREW FREE L…EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK: $97,350 · Human ServicesEMPOWER HER N…No One Left Behind: $75,000 · Human ServicesWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $72,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars: $66,335 · Human ServicesACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $51,785 · Human Services+24 more: $378,363 · Human Services+24 moreSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $781,802 · Housing & ShelterSOCIAL JUST…NEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN: $390,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW ECONOMI…+3 more: $24,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $533,650 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $31,772 · PhilanthropyTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthNATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $81,000 · HealthSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES: $50,962 · Health+4 more: $21,822 · Health
Other$5,461,075Education$1,792,492Youth Development$1,464,546Human Services$1,420,294Housing & Shelter$1,196,302Philanthropy$590,422Health$353,784

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 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
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 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: 47% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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