· Private foundation
The Lewis M & Esther Perlstein Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of THE LEWIS M & ESTHER PERLSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - WILDLIFE RECOVERY FUND | $8,000 |
| TEMPLE EMUNAH | $3,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM | $3,000 |
| NATURE BRIDGE | $2,000 |
| PETA - PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS | $1,750 |
| INOVA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES | $1,750 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $1,500 |
| CONGREGATION OF AGUDAT ACHIM | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,250 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,200 |
| FRIENDS OF BORDERLAND | $1,000 |
| APDA - AMERICAN PARKINSON'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $800 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $750 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE OF NORTHERN VA | $700 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CACONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +104%
- FOFriends of Borderland Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +486%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- JUJDC UKRAINE RELIEF ACTIVITIESone grant, 2022 · $4k
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -60%- TFTRUE & FAITHFUL PET RESCUE MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +575%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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;…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 185 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Borderland Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds White Mountain Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds TRUE & FAITHFUL PET RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC ↗
- Who funds TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation · Fife Family Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lewis M & Esther Perlstein Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Kingdom Trail Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Friends of Sholan Farms Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.