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The Pearl Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Pearl Family Foundation Inc

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.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$277kArts & Culture$120kScience & Tech$60kHuman Services$28kCivil Rights$24kHealth$21kEnvironment$12kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$509k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION$20,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$20,000
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC$8,500
ALLY COALITION INC$6,000
DOROT INC$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$5,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$3,500
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$3,000
NEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN$2,500
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,500
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC$2,500
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS$2,000
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 (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $4k → 14%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMANS MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMANS MARK: $1k → 4%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%DOROT INC: $5k → 17%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
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

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$487k · 57 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
26

Total granted

$487k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+7%

Still filing today

96%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PA
    PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +24%
  • TA
    THE ALLY COALITION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +144%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +719%

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%
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
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
7
The Newark Museum Association

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

Arts & Culture
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
10
Ukrainian Museum

The mission of the ukrainian museum is to acquire, preserve, exhibit & interpret articles of artistic, historic, & scientific value related to ukrainian life & culture; to promote all aspects of ukrainian culture; & to educate the public…

Arts & Culture
11
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Folk Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is Bucks County Playhouse Theater 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 95 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/87
Grantees still filing
61/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $141,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC: $62,300 · 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: $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANF…+4 more: $9,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - GIFTS ACCOUNTING AND: $112,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - GIFT…NEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,750 · OtherPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · Other+32 more: $69,450 · Other+32 morePLAYHOUSE ARTISTS: $36,100 · Arts & CulturePLAYHOUSE ARTISTSSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSTORYVILLE CENTER FO…FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $8,750 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENT…BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOU…THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOU…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM …HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTY THEATER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more: $31,025 · Arts & Culture+24 moreTHE ALLY COALITION INC: $24,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $8,500 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $6,000 · Civil RightsBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE RAPUNZEL PROJECT: $9,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,750 · HealthPRACTICE COALITION: $3,000 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthLAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,500 · HealthMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthDOROT INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesFishermans Mark: $9,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $8,250 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$267,500Other$212,700Arts & Culture$129,875Civil Rights$38,500Health$35,750Human Services$27,000Recreation & Sports$14,250

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $141,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC: $62,300 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetPLAYHOUSE ARTISTS: $36,100 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLY COALITION INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,750 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPUNZEL PROJECT: $9,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $8,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $8,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTY THEATER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE CELEBRATES INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 over 1y, 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 budgetPRACTICE COALITION: $3,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kaduson Strauss Community Foundation: $2,050 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAINFOREST FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 4y, 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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