· Private foundation
The Perlman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA | $100,000 |
| NPR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| PBS NEWSHOUR | $10,000 |
| GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE | $2,000 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE JUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK AND GARDENS | $2,000 |
| IYENGAR YOGA ASSN OF GREATER NY | $1,200 |
| BANTAM CINEMA AND ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CRAFT | $1,000 |
| WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC | $1,000 |
| THE JUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK AND GARDENS | $1,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Perlman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NFNPR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue +5%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +133%
- TJTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $324k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- TMTHE MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -93%
- CRCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF USone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -89%
- PCPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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…
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.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Windsor Charitable 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
60 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. 60 of the 87 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 NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BKS IYENGAR YOGA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Royal Academy America Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
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 Kestrel Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Dungannon Foundation Inc · The Wenden Foundation · The Big Wood Foundation · The Jaffe Family Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Berne Foundation · The Block Grausman Fund · Rene Bloch Foundation · Coleman Family 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 Perlman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 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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