Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

The Pearl Family Foundation Inc

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.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$277kArts & Culture$120kScience & Tech$60kHuman Services$28kCivil Rights$24kHealth$21kEnvironment$12kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$549k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,000
THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION$10,000
PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS$7,000
ALLY COALITION INC$6,000
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$4,000
NEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,750
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC$3,000
PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC$2,500
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN$2,500
DOROT INC$2,500
NEW HOPE CELEBRATES INC$2,000
CHILD USA$2,000
FISHERMANS MARK$2,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC$1,750
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%FISHERMANS MARK: $1k → 4%DOROT INC: $3k → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%DOROT INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
NM
HI

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$396k · 52 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
27

Total granted

$396k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+7%

Still filing today

96%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • PA
    PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +24%
  • TA
    THE ALLY COALITION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +144%
  • BW
    BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • GP
    GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -26%
  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TR
    THE RAINFOREST FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -79%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
6
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
9
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
10
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
12
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Folk Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Kaduson Strauss Community Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesLgbtq+ Community SupportJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%46%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,082

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.

04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 86 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
57/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $119,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC — $42,300 · EducationBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUND…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $35,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANF…+4 more — $7,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - GIFTS ACCOUNTING AND — $112,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - GIFTS …PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION — $9,000 · OtherNEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,750 · OtherCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $6,750 · Other+27 more — $48,900 · Other+27 morePLAYHOUSE ARTISTS — $34,100 · Arts & CulturePLAYHOUSE ARTISTSFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $8,750 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CEN…STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureSTORYVILLE CENTER F…THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHO…HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $4,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $4,500 · Arts & CultureCOUNTY THEATER INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $27,825 · Arts & Culture+22 moreBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE RAPUNZEL PROJECT — $8,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,250 · HealthPRACTICE COALITION — $2,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $1,500 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,500 · HealthLAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SQUAD INC — $1,250 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthTHE ALLY COALITION INC — $18,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $6,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $5,000 · Civil RightsFishermans Mark — $7,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE RAINFOREST FUND INC — $2,000 · Environment
Education$221,500Other$184,900Arts & Culture$102,675Health$32,000Civil Rights$29,000Human Services$16,500Environment$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $119,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC — $42,300 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYHOUSE ARTISTS — $34,100 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ALLY COALITION INC — $18,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $8,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPUNZEL PROJECT — $8,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,750 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University — $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTY THEATER INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE CELEBRATES INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kaduson Strauss Community Foundation — $2,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetTHE RAINFOREST FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRACTICE COALITION — $2,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE EAGLE FIRE CO — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SQUAD INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Bucks County Conferen…Bbla Foundation IncPheasant Hill Foundat…Penn Community Bank F…The Haley FoundationKerr Family FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Frank R Goodman Famil…Ideal FoundationThe Lehman FoundationThe Marvin and Dee Wo…
Bucks County Conference & Visitors BureauPA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · Bbla Foundation Inc · Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Haley Foundation · Kerr Family Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Frank R Goodman Family Foundation · Ideal Foundation · The Lehman Foundation · The Marvin and Dee Woodall 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 Pearl Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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