Illinois · Private foundation
Perlstein Foundation
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.
- $99k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $87k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $528k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Perlstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $87k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $78k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $75k | 65% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University Settlement Association | $35,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Higher Ground USA Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $12,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Compassionate Communities for Children | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $11,850 | 3 | 0% |
| Lawrence University of Wisconsin | $11,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Perlstein Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Perlstein Foundation
- How much does Perlstein Foundation give?
- Perlstein Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $86,500, out of $98,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Perlstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (9%), Environment (5%), Health (4%).
- Who are Perlstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwestern University Settlement Association ($36k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($20k), St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc ($19k).
- Does Perlstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Perlstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Perlstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, AbbVie Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Perlstein Foundation based?
- Perlstein Foundation is based in IL.
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