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The Pearl Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BAYOU ST | $18,045 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| POSSIBILITY LABS | $10,000 |
| DKT INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| WRRAP | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK ABORTION FUND | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| SOUL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ABORTION CARE | $5,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $5,000 |
| LOUSIANA ABORTION FUND | $5,000 |
| UNO FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- YEYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +39%
- DIDKT INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
- TBTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- AGAMERICAN GIFT FUND FBO RICHARD A PEARL MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $2.6M
- TTTIDES THOREAU CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LMLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +70%
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
To create culturally responsive pregnancy and parenting experiences for Blak, immigrant, and refugee families.
The Partnership Project is organized and operated exclusively to enhance protection of the natural environment by improving the effectiveness of environmental organizations. It currently has 17 groups participating, including the largest…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Pregnancy counseling
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Voices for the Voiceless exists to create a world where every human is valued and no one faces unexpected pregnancy alone. Significant activities include pregnancy support and human rights advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neo Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Point of Light Foundation Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 75 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 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds DKT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Soul Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BULLPEN WAY STATION & SANCTUARY LTD ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds BLUE LION RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for Louisiana · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Kresge Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Pearl 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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