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Jane Dorothy Perlmutter Foundation

Boca Raton, FL · EIN 22-3508081. Reported 31 grants totalling $85,700 to 19 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$85,700granted, 2021-2024
19organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$295,012assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Jane Dorothy Perlmutter Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $125 and $5,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
18 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
New York City CenterNew York, NY$42,500442024
One World One VisionPurchase, NY$20,000222024
Associate Alumnae of Douglass CollegeNew Brunswick, NJ$5,000112024
Friends of the IdfNew York, NY$5,000112023
Wildlife Research InstituteEly, MN$5,000112023
Doe FundNew York, NY$1,500222023
Art Deco Society of New YorkNew York, NY$1,300222023
Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn, NY$1,200222024
American Dance Machine for the 21ST CenturyNew York, NY$1,000112022
CameraWashington, DC$650222024
Metro Museum of ArtNew York, NY$600112021
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY$600112022
Esna IncNew York City, NY$440442024
Boca Raton Museum of ArtBoca Raton, FL$310222024
Suarez Scholarship FundMiami, FL$200112021
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$100112023
Peters Valley School of CraftLayton, NJ$100112022
Psc Partners Seeking a CureGreenwood Village, CO$100112023
Sachs FoundationColorado Springs, CO$100112021

8 of 19 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 33%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
8 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$18,100$400
20226$9,505$392
202310$32,120$750
20247$25,975$500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 87% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$74K
New Jersey
$5K
Minnesota
$5K
District of Columbia
$650
Florida
$510
Colorado
$200

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Jane Dorothy Perlmutter Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2600 S Ocean Blvd Apt No 18D, Boca Raton, FL, 33432. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 22-3508081 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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