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The Perlmutter Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARINGKIND | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $5,000 |
| N STREET VILLAGE | $2,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FIREFIGHTERS | $1,000 |
| THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
| FIELDSTON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COFFEE FOR GOOD | $1,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| CHARLEY'S FUND | $1,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| LARCHMONT MAMARONECK VOLUNTEER AMBU | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 57 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +41%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +22%
- TCThe Committee of 2002× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELone grant, 2024 · $20k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +111%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -12%
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sips & Kicks 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 126 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 WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Committee of 200 ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CRUCIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHARLEY'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SIPS & KICKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Peek Family Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Perlmutter Family Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% 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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