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Arthur Judson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Arthur Judson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$374kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$12,000
CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS$6,500
FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$6,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA$5,500
CAROLYN EYNON SINGERS$5,000
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA$5,000
ARS NOVA WORKSHOP$5,000
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING$5,000
RIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA$5,000
THE AMARILLO SYMPHONY$5,000
PLAY ON PHILLY$5,000
BUCKS COUNTY CHORALE SOCIETY$5,000
LENAPE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE$4,000
BERKS OPERA WORKSHOP$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,800
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PHOENIX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 11%FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6k → 16%BUCKS COUNTY CHORALE SOCIETY: $5k → 6%THE AMARILLO SYMPHONY: $5k → 20%RIVERSIDE SYMPHNIA: $6k → 4%CAROLYN EYNON SINGERS: $5k → 11%FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 16%BUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY: $5k → 6%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 11%BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $10k → 11%PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $5k → 22%THE AMARILLO SYMPHONY: $4k → 20%RIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA: $5k → 4%CAROLYN EYNON SINGERS: $5k → 11%FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 16%BUCKS COUNTY CHORALE SOCIETY: $5k → 6%MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA: $6k → 7%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 11%BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $8k → 11%FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $5k → 4%CAROLYN EYNON SINGERS: $4k → 11%MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA: $4k → 7%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 11%BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $8k → 11%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $10k → 22%RIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA: $5k → 4%CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $7k → 6%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 11%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $8k → 22%FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $5k → 4%CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $5k → 6%BERKS SINFONIETTA: $8k → 11%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $8k → 22%RIVERSIDE SYMPHNIA: $5k → 4%CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $5k → 6%BERKS SINFONIETTA: $8k → 11%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $4k → 4%CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $5k → 6%BERKS SINFONIETTA: $7k → 11%PLAY ON PHILLY: $5k → 22%LENAPE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: $4k → 6%ARS NOVA WORKSHOP: $5k → 22%ARS NOVA WORKSHOP: $5k → 22%ARS NOVA WORKSHOP: $4k → 22%ARS NOVA WORKSHOP: $4k → 22%WHYY: $15k → 22%THE PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER: $8k → 22%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$346k · 20 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$346k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • RS
    READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +86%
  • BC
    BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +14%
  • FS
    FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WHYY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • PB
    PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

1
Warminster Symphony Society

Performs classical music for the community

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2
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble

Offering Professional Music Concerts

—
4
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…

Arts & Culture
5
Delaware County Symphony

Symphonic concerts

Arts & Culture
6
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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7
Philharmonia Northwest

Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…

Arts & Culture
8
Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra Society Inc

Presentation of symphony orchestra and chamber music concerts benefiting 50-700 patrons per event

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9
Vanguard Concerts
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10
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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11
Bloomington Classical Guitar Society
Arts & Culture
12
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Inc

The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reading Symphony Orchestra Association; the most unlike its peers is Whyy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $26,000 · Arts & CultureBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEMFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $22,000 · Arts & CultureFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONBERKS SINFONIETTA INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureBERKS SINFONIETTA INCCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $21,500 · Arts & CultureCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERSBUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY: $18,000 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETYARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureARS NOVA WORKSHOP INCWHYY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCPLAY ON PHILLY: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePLAY ON PHILLYMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA: $12,500 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBERKS OPERA WORKSHOP: $11,400 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $25,785 · Arts & Culture+5 moreRIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA INC: $20,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA INCCAROLYN EYNON SINGERS: $17,000 · OtherCAROLYN EYNON SINGERSFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $14,300 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF R…Individual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $9,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRAJASPER CHAMBER CONCERTS: $9,000 · OtherJASPER CHAMBER CONCERTSIndividual grant recipient: $6,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $30,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$261,185Other$101,100Employment$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $26,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $22,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBERKS SINFONIETTA INC: $22,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $21,500 over 4y, 46% of budgetRIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY: $18,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $18,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWHYY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA: $12,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBERKS OPERA WORKSHOP: $11,400 over 3y, 13% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLenape Chamber Ensemble Inc: $7,485 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: $4,800 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetREADING POPS ORCHESTRA: $3,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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 Presser FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Reading Musical Found…The Philadelphia Cult…Bbla Foundation IncLindback Cr & Mf Foun…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Philadelphia Foun…Arizona Community Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
The Presser FoundationPA34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Presser Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Reading Musical Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Bbla Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Arthur Judson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Arthur Judson 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 28 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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