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The Perlman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$979kEducation$450kYouth Development$364kFood & Nutrition$335kScience & Tech$266kPhilanthropy$163kEnvironment$117kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE JUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK AND GARDENS$2,000
FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE$2,000
STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION$2,000
IYENGAR YOGA ASSN OF GREATER NY$1,200
WASHINGTON AMBULANCE BUILDING FUND$1,000
BANTAM CINEMA AND ARTS CENTER$1,000
WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC$1,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$1,000
CENTER FOR CRAFT$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $10k → 22%BANCROFT: $500 → 12%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $250 → 10%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $250 → 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

NH
ID
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
NC
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Perlman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Perlman Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 42 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
42

Total granted

$2.2M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

71%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • NF
    NPR FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue +49%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +164%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $324k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -93%
  • CR
    COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -89%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · 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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
3
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
4
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment
5
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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12
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 87 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NPR FOUNDATION: $605,664 · OtherNPR FOUNDATIONTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $324,385 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $265,567 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $55,875 · Other+47 more: $212,584 · Other+47 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $327,231 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…University of South Florida Foundation Inc: $48,175 · EducationUniversity of Sout…THE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $33,500 · EducationTHE BALDWIN SCHOOLRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $28,500 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE O…+5 more: $11,500 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $364,360 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS…+1 more: $455 · Youth DevelopmentSARASOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $74,752 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $18,057 · Arts & CultureTHE MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $11,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropySTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $70,530 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $35,500 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Environment+3 more: $8,025 · EnvironmentPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $9,900 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · Human Services+2 more: $750 · Human Services
Other$1,464,075Education$448,906Youth Development$364,815Arts & Culture$212,309Philanthropy$139,500Environment$118,055Human Services$15,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNPR FOUNDATION: $605,664 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $364,360 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $327,231 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $324,385 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $265,567 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSARASOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $74,752 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $70,530 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $55,875 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $48,175 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $35,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $33,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBKS IYENGAR YOGA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $15,299 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $12,850 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $9,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $9,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetRoyal Academy America Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $4,562 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $3,525 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON PARK FOUNDATION INC: $3,412 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWashington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $2,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,035 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $1,495 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHUYLKILL RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquestrian Aid Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Kestrel FoundationMurray & Susan Haber …Dungannon Foundation …The Wenden FoundationThe Big Wood Foundati…The Jaffe Family Foun…The Connecticut Commu…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Robert Berne Foun…The Block Grausman Fu…Rene Bloch FoundationColeman Family Charit…
The Kestrel FoundationCT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Perlman Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Perlman 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 87 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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