American Chai Trust

American Chai Trust

American Chai Trust was established in 1968 as a private foundation in New York. Clifford Perlman, a partner at the law firm Perlman & Perlman, LLP, serves as a trustee and primary contact point. The foundation's trustees also include Aaron Doynow and Michael Cohn, while Perlman's colleague Richard E. Feldman, Esq., is closely associated with the trust's grantee relationships, including board service at the New York-based charity God's Love We Deliver. The trust's grantmaking is concentrated geographically, supporting charities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It makes general support grants rather than program-specific or capital-campaign commitments. Grantee organizations include health-service providers like God's Love We Deliver and a range of community-based educational and social-service nonprofits. The foundation does not maintain a public investment team or external asset-management structure, operating instead as a closely held philanthropic vehicle. The trust's 2022 tax filing reported total assets of just under $550,000 (per IRS Form 990-PF, 2022). It has no additional offices, and its governance and grant-administration functions appear to run through the principals at Perlman & Perlman. There is no evidence of separate operating arms, club memberships, or adjacent investment entities. American Chai Trust's architecture is essentially a law-firm-annexed foundation. Trustee Clifford Perlman and advisor Richard Feldman both practice at a firm that specializes in nonprofit law, giving the trust an unusually tight integration of grantmaking and legal administration without the layered governance or investment committee structures found in larger foundations.