· Private foundation
Perlow Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| VIA ART FUND INC | $15,000 |
| KOLLEL | $13,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $9,152 |
| SHAARE TORAH CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| ART 21 | $5,000 |
| MOVING TRADITIONS | $5,000 |
| APERTURE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ALEPH INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| PADRES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES | $1,800 |
| PROJECT KESHER | $1,800 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $1,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMOVING TRADITIONS7× · 2017–2023 · $107k · revenue +30%
- CDCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $84k · revenue +31%
- VAVIA ART FUND INC6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- NRNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +61%
- AFAmerican Friends of Migdal OHRone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -25%
- JRJEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIA ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds ART21 INC ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds STANLEY M MARKS BLOOD CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NEW YORK SECTION ↗
- Who funds PENCIL INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Perlow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perlow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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