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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.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.7MYouth Development$94kHealth$87kHuman Services$77kInternational$52kAnimals$50kArts & Culture$37kCivil Rights$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF BAYOU ST$18,045
POSSIBILITY LABS$10,000
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$10,000
BRIGID ALLIANCE$10,000
WRRAP$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION$5,000
DKT INTERNATIONAL$5,000
NEW YORK ABORTION FUND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOUL FOUNDATION$5,000
ABORTION CARE$5,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$5,000
LOUSIANA ABORTION FUND$5,000
UNO FOUNDATION$3,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POSSIBILITY LABS: $10k → 10%LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%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
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
NC
DC
LA
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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 34 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
27

Total granted

$426k
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
HealthAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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

  • YE
    YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +39%
  • DI
    DKT INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • AG
    AMERICAN GIFT FUND FBO RICHARD A PEARL MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $2.6M
  • LM
    LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +70%
  • TT
    TIDES THOREAU CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
World Pulse Voices

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…

Human Services
4
Cooperation L a

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.

Arts & Culture
5
New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Global Perinatal Services

To create culturally responsive pregnancy and parenting experiences for Blak, immigrant, and refugee families.

Human Services
7
The Partnership Project Inc

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…

Environment
8
Nature for Justice

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.

Environment
9
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
10
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Voices for the Voiceless Inc

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neo Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 75 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
19/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN GIFT FUND FBO RICHARD A PEARL MEMORIAL FUND: $2,625,362 · OtherAMERICAN GIFT FUND FBO RICHARD A PEARL MEMORIAL FUND+51 more: $237,495 · Other+51 moreYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $92,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30,000 · HealthNational Women's Health Network: $25,000 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $15,000 · HealthODYSSEY HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $2,400 · HealthDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 · InternationalSoul Foundation Inc: $19,500 · InternationalPeace Development Fund: $2,000 · InternationalTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $2,500 · Human ServicesBULLPEN WAY STATION & SANCTUARY LTD: $16,500 · AnimalsBLUE LION RESCUE: $8,000 · AnimalsSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $1,700 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $1,500 · AnimalsBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsLOUISIANA ABORTION FUND: $8,000 · EnvironmentHEALTHY GULF: $5,500 · EnvironmentWestchester Land Trust Inc: $3,500 · EnvironmentNOLA Tree Project: $2,500 · Environment
Other$2,862,857Crime & Legal$92,500Health$74,900International$51,500Human Services$42,500Animals$28,700Environment$19,500

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 budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $92,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSoul Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBULLPEN WAY STATION & SANCTUARY LTD: $16,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA ABORTION FUND: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE LION RESCUE: $8,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHEALTHY GULF: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Lafitte Corridor Inc: $5,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSong Community Development Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrow On Urban Farms: $2,500 over 1y, 48% of budgetNOLA Tree Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetForward Together: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIDEO VERACITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $500 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 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DKT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
  • 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 LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • 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 TIDES CENTER ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Amalgamated Charitabl…Foundation for Louisi…Silicon Valley Commun…WK Kellogg FoundationNew Orleans Community…Shell USA Company Fou…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Kresge FoundationNew Venture FundTides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Pearl Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Pearl Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 75 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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