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The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$909kEducation$98kHuman Services$18kHealth$14kPhilanthropy$14kInternational$14kFood & Nutrition$11kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
$4,286
Median grant
4
States reached
$78k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST HOLLYWOOD PRE SCHOOL$18,316
HATZALAH OF SOUTH FLORIDA$18,000
KOLEL NER NAFTOLI$13,500
YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD$13,150
GIVING IS LOVING$10,300
OUR PLACE$10,000
HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY KOLLEL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,350
AISH GESHER FOR WOMEN$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT OROT$5,400
ORTHODOX UNION$5,280
YIH FOUNDATION$5,160
AFYTY$5,000
CHAI LIFELINE$5,000
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 (FY17–22, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 11%NETZACH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $500 → 13%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 6%MARION & AARON GURAL JCC: $500 → 6%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 20%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

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 70 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
65

Total granted

$1.1M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+33%

Still filing today

26%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $162k · revenue +104%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +99%
  • GI
    GIVING IS LOVING INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • R
    REKONECT
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRAT AVOT
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -9%
  • TS
    THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
6
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
7
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
8
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
9
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
11
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
12
Sherit Isroel
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Genesis Jerusalem Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rekonect. 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

47 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. 47 of the 146 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $106,419 · OtherYOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD INCHATZALAH OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $61,000 · OtherHATZALAH OF SOUTH FLORIDASIMCHA CONNECTION INC: $50,620 · OtherSIMCHA CONNECTION INCIndividual grant recipient: $43,000 · OtherVARIOUS: $40,120 · OtherGIVING IS LOVING INC: $32,800 · OtherYJP LAS OLAS INC: $32,535 · OtherGIL: $31,430 · Other+101 more: $471,408 · Other+101 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL: $161,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $61,430 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …+5 more: $8,085 · InternationalKOLLEL NER NAFTALI: $43,500 · ReligionREKONECT: $22,245 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT OROT INC: $10,000 · ReligionMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC: $7,100 · Religion+8 more: $10,410 · ReligionKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $22,500 · EducationHEICHAL HATORAH: $11,546 · EducationYESHIVAT TORAT YOSEF INC: $5,000 · EducationThe Frisch School: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $1,286 · EducationTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE NETZACH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRAT AVOT: $11,000 · PhilanthropyJust One Chesed Inc: $3,020 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $8,580 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $2,315 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$869,332International$231,115Religion$93,255Education$45,332Human Services$19,000Philanthropy$14,020Health$11,895

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL: $161,600 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $61,430 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKOLLEL NER NAFTALI: $43,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGIVING IS LOVING INC: $32,800 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREKONECT: $22,245 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEICHAL HATORAH: $11,546 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRAT AVOT: $11,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT OROT INC: $10,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $8,580 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC: $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETZACH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT TORAT YOSEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Frisch School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Chesed Inc: $3,020 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $2,940 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $2,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeis Midrash of Queens: $2,620 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $2,315 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $2,280 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKOLEL CHIBAS JERUSALEM: $2,185 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYehudi Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZOHAR: $1,340 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Hatorah: $680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Yedidim Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR CHODOSH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Content Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKULANU INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEV AHARON: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD YITZCHAK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $36 over 1y, 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds KOLLEL NER NAFTALI ↗
  • Who funds GIVING IS LOVING INC ↗
  • Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds REKONECT ↗
  • Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRAT AVOT ↗
  • Who funds THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT OROT INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundFjcThe J W FoundationCross River Community…The Zev and Susan Mun…The Jmg FoundationUnited Jewish Communi…Associated Jewish Cha…Equifund Organization…Alice G Hanson Family…The Slomo and Cindy S…
Jewish Communal FundNY48× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · The J W Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · United Jewish Community of Broward County Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Equifund Organization Inc · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc

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 The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Heichal Hatorah: 1% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
  • Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 146 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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