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Jane Dorothy Perlmutter Foundation

Boca Raton, FL · EIN 22-3508081. Reported 37 grants totalling $100,400 to 22 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$100,400granted, 2021-2025
22recipients, as named on its returns
37%of grantees funded again the next year
$279,651assets, 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 $150 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
22 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
5 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
New York City CenterNew York, NY$52,500552025
One World One VisionPurchase, NY$20,000222024
Associate Alumnae of Douglass CollegeNew Brunswick, NJ$5,200222025
Friends of the IdfNew York, NY$5,000112023
Wildlife Research InstituteEly, MN$5,000112023
Museum of Arts and DesignNew York, NY$3,500112025
Doe FundNew York, NY$1,500222023
Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn, NY$1,450332025
Art Deco Society of New YorkNew York, NY$1,300222023
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
Beth Ami CongregationBoca Raton, FL$500112025
Esna IncNew York City, NY$440442024
Boca Raton Museum of ArtBoca Raton, FL$310222024
Corporation for Supportive HousingNew York, NY$250112025
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

9 of 22 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 37%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
10 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Education
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$18,100$400
20226$9,505$392
202310$32,120$750
20247$25,975$500
20256$14,700$375

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

88% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$88K
New Jersey
$5K
Minnesota
$5K
Florida
$1K
District of Columbia
$650
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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

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