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Perlow Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$149k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
17
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 34
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Perlow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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
FY202317$109k6%
FY202224$194k17%
FY202127$210k7%
FY202020$171k10%
FY201927$196k22%
FY201834$246k26%
FY201734$246kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$698kReligion$561kArts & Culture$240kYouth Development$203kEducation$112kRecreation & Sports$76kCivil Rights$33kHuman Services$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MD
AZ
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Moving Traditions$107,00071%
Community Day School$84,00060%
Via Art Fund Inc$60,00061%
Artists Image Resource Inc$55,00066%
Shaare Torah Congregation$47,1007n/a
Art21 Inc$34,75070%
Aperture Foundation Inc$30,02570%
Congregation Beth Shalom$26,2216n/a
Aleph Institute Inc$25,6006n/a
National Ramah Commission Inc$25,00010%
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All grantees of Perlow Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Moving Traditions$107,00071%
Community Day School$84,00060%
Via Art Fund Inc$60,00061%
Artists Image Resource Inc$55,00066%
Shaare Torah Congregation$47,1007n/a
Art21 Inc$34,75070%
Aperture Foundation Inc$30,02570%
Congregation Beth Shalom$26,2216n/a
Aleph Institute Inc$25,6006n/a
National Ramah Commission Inc$25,00010%
Project Kesher$16,00070%
Stanley M Marks Blood Cancer Research Fund$15,00031%
Mechon Hadar$6,4004n/a
Brotherhood Synagogue$6,2806n/a
Education Law Center - PA$4,5003n/a
American Friends of Migdal OHR$3,60010%
Boca Jewish Center$3,6002n/a
Jewish Residential Services Inc$3,33310%
Congregation Rodeph Sholom$2,4002n/a
National Council of Jewish Women New York Section$2,00020%
Pencil Inc$2,00020%
Auberle$1,50010%
Primary Stages Company Inc$1,50010%
Chasdei Avos Inc$1,2502n/a
Amudei Ohr Inc$1,2001n/a
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust$1,00010%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$1,00010%
Aspire Arizona Foundation$1,0001n/a
Her Justice Inc$1,0001n/a
Chatham University$1,00020%
Housing Plus Solutions Inc$50010%
Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($800k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Perlow Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMoving Traditions: $107,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Day School: $84,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVia Art Fund Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetArtists Image Resource Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetArt21 Inc: $34,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAperture Foundation Inc: $30,025 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNational Ramah Commission Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject Kesher: $16,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetStanley M Marks Blood Cancer Research Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Residential Services Inc: $3,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women New York Section: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPencil Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAuberle: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPittsburgh Cultural Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Theatre Workshop Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChatham University: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Park Conservancy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 20.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY22.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust · David S Shapira Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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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About Perlow Family Foundation

How much does Perlow Family Foundation give?
Perlow Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $148,552 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Perlow Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Religion (28%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Perlow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Moving Traditions ($107k), Community Day School ($84k), Via Art Fund Inc ($60k).
Does Perlow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Perlow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Perlow Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char.
Where is Perlow Family Foundation based?
Perlow Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 59 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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