· Private foundation
Perlman Family Foundation Founded by Anita and Louis Perlman
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $491k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $139,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $120,000 |
| WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $100,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $82,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS | $50,000 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $47,500 |
| NORTON & ELAINE SARNOFF CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETICS | $45,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $45,000 |
| ALAIN LOCKE CHARTER SCHOOL | $39,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY | $31,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY | $25,000 |
| FIEDLER HILLEL AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $24,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES | $20,000 |
| JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO6× · 2019–2025 · $834k · revenue +57%
- OTOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel6× · 2019–2025 · $665k · revenue +53%
- ALAlain Locke Charter School6× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +56%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IPISRAEL PARASPORT CENTERone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds Alain Locke Charter School ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
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: Circle of Service Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Perlman Family Foundation Founded by Anita and Louis Perlman 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.
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.