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The Pearlman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Pearlman Family Foundation Inc’s FY2018 grant dollars went to The Rhode Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Pearlman Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $130k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k21 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER | $20,059 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS | $11,000 |
| GBPLF ONE AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ROCKY MT | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF S NEW EN | $10,000 |
| DOLPHINS CANCER CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| USA FOR UNHCR | $8,000 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $7,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $5,000 |
| GAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FINCA | $1,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of your 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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 30 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 THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 314ACTION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POLYPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET RI ↗
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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Champlin Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pearlman 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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