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The Perelman 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.

$828k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$7.3MInternational$3.3MHealth$2.8MArts & Culture$1.8MReligion$1.6MCrime & Legal$170kYouth Development$125kCivil Rights$125kOther$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+3 grants · $813k
$258,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATED BETH RIVKAH SCHOOLS$300,000
MACHINE ISRAEL$258,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE$255,000
NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND S$15,000
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
AZ
NC
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 30 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
66

Total granted

$13M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+27%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitCrime & 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

  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.8M · revenue +36%
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.7M · revenue +46%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $780k · revenue +409%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +196%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +68%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
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
8
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Holly Andersen Heart Foundation. 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

63 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. 63 of the 101 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The ONE Campaign: $2,000,000 · OtherThe ONE CampaignASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $1,668,000 · OtherASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLSIndividual grant recipient: $1,456,467 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMACHNE ISRAEL: $1,290,000 · OtherMACHNE ISRAELMACHINE ISRAEL: $766,000 · OtherMACHINE ISRAELUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - DENVER: $384,028 · Other+58 more: $1,514,636 · Other+58 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $1,825,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOLTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $400,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOLARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Education+6 more: $241,720 · EducationTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MY…CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $780,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INST…HOLLY ANDERSEN HEART FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthHOLLY ANDERSEN …+4 more: $135,000 · HealthAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $401,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO TH…Museum of Modern Art: $400,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of…American Museum of Natural History: $343,100 · Arts & CultureAmerican …ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureROCK & RO…MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION: $183,000 · Arts & CultureMESERVE-K…+7 more: $123,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $400,000 · InternationalNISON PINSON FOUNDATION: $108,960 · InternationalNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $125,000 · Public BenefitCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC: $25,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $2,500 · Public BenefitNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$9,079,131Education$5,166,720Health$2,565,000Arts & Culture$1,670,100International$508,960Public Benefit$152,500Crime & Legal$130,000

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: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe ONE Campaign: $2,000,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $1,825,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetASSOCIATED BETH RIVKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $1,668,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $780,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $401,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $343,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLY ANDERSEN HEART FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 93% of budgetROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $125,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNISON PINSON FOUNDATION: $108,960 over 1y, 60% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $26,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST 62ND STREET ASSOCIATION INC: $23,500 over 2y, 29% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KENYON REVIEW: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVETSAID INC: $5,000 over 1y, 16% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Association of Charle…May and Samuel Rudin …United Way Miami IncPledgeling FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Bessemer Giving F…The Ayco Charitable F…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Association of Charles Evans Housing Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco 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 Perelman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Perelman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%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
    4get no government money at all
    10report 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.
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    How do I get to The Perelman Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Perelman Family Foundation Inc 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 101 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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