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Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
118
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$219kHealth$127kInternational$67kArts & Culture$43kFood & Nutrition$33kEducation$26kPhilanthropy$21kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k116 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$200
Median grant
22
States reached
$665k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$30,000
TAC (TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER)$10,000
CONGREGATION HAKAFA$6,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$6,000
HADASSAH$5,000
WBEZ$3,000
WTTW$3,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$3,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$3,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$2,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$2,500
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$2,500
SKOKIE VALLEY AGUDATH JACOB SYNAGOGUE$2,300
NORTH SHORE MUSICIAN'S CLUB$2,000
HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $150 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $25 → 7%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $80 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $80 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25 → 14%CBG INSTITUTE FOR DANCE & HEALTH: $500 → 8%SHALVA: $860 → 14%SHALVA: $500 → 14%SHALVA: $500 → 14%SHALVA: $300 → 14%SHALVA: $300 → 14%SHALVA: $300 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
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IN
PA
NJ
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CA
CO
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MD
AZ
KS
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DC
OK
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$577k · 118 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

118 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
22

Total granted

$577k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

72%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +61%
  • TA
    TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +45%
  • TT
    THE THRESHOLDS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • WC
    WELLESLEY COLLEGE HILLEL FRIENDS OF
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -34%
  • BS
    BIG SHOTS BASKETBALL
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
7
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
10
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Savoy Aires. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 152 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
78/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE THRESHOLDS: $51,000 · OtherTHE THRESHOLDSHADASSAH: $40,000 · OtherHADASSAHCONGREGATION HAKAFA: $37,450 · OtherCONGREGATION HAKAFAHighland Park Community Foundation: $15,000 · OtherHighland Park Community Foundation+93 more: $124,553 · Other+93 moreJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $125,000 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND …+5 more: $4,700 · ReligionInternational Rescue Committee INC: $31,000 · InternationalInternational…Save The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 · InternationalSave The Chil…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,900 · InternationalUNITED STATES…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,800 · International+15 more: $15,130 · International+15 moreTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $60,000 · HealthTREATMENT AD…American College of Preventive Medicine: $2,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $2,950 · HealthGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $9,900 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $8,800 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS: $3,300 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $2,500 · Food & NutritionWellesley College: $12,500 · EducationLET'S GET READY INC: $7,500 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1,700 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $700 · EducationRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8,200 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureOLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,450 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $1,400 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $1,290 · Arts & Culture
Other$268,003Religion$129,700International$70,830Health$67,950Food & Nutrition$24,500Education$23,400Arts & Culture$21,140

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $9,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $8,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $8,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL: $8,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $3,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $3,300 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHALVA INC: $2,760 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican College of Preventive Medicine: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CHESS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC: $1,800 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $1,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $1,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
  • Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds American College of Preventive Medicine ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHESS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…Walter and Karla Gold…Circle of Service Fou…Irving & Marilyn Naid…Evanston Community Fo…First Bank Chicago Fo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationJohn D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Jewish Communal Fund
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roslyn & Joseph Perlman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 152 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home