Illinois · Private foundation
Roslyn & Joseph Perlman 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.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 118
- Grants FY2025
- 103
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 90 to 103
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $665k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 116 | $107k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 103 | $104k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $96k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $96k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 99 | $92k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 100 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Treatment Advocacy Center | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Thresholds | $51,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $9,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $8,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $8,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of the Green Bay Trail | $8,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 110 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roslyn & Joseph Perlman 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Irving & Marilyn Naiditch Family Foundation · Evanston Community Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
Compare Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation with peer funders
About Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation
- How much does Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation give?
- Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $108,340 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 103 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Health (21%), International (11%).
- Who are Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: J Street Education Fund Inc ($125k), Treatment Advocacy Center ($60k), The Thresholds ($51k).
- Does Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roslyn & Joseph Perlman 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 Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation.
- Where is Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation based?
- Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation is based in IL.
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