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Borowsky Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$191k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MPhilanthropy$342kInternational$123kEducation$118kReligion$68kEnvironment$47kFood & Nutrition$24kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$18,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE$45,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$30,000
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$20,000
SHARING EXCESS$18,750
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$10,000
RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE VALLEY$5,000
READING ALLOWED$2,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL PROJECT: $3k → 12%SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
NC
AL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 49 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
56

Total granted

$1.6M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+55%

Still filing today

53%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $216k · revenue +43%
  • PC
    Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
    6× · 2018–2023 · $68k · revenue +11%
  • FP
    FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • BF
    BOROSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION OTHER CHARITIES (INFO AVAILABLE)
    one grant, 2017 · $131k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
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.

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Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc

Pokc was formed for charitable and educational purposes and is dedicated to the promotion of the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Interfaith Institute. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Liberty Museum: $393,000 · Arts & CultureNational Liberty MuseumKIMMEL CENTER INC: $216,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INCPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $67,500 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Chamber Music SocietyMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $55,779 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $480,547 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTSTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $55,900 · EducationTemple University - Of The Com…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $40,500 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY+7 more: $13,345 · EducationBOROSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION OTHER CHARITIES (INFO AVAILABLE): $130,625 · OtherBOROSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION…ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $50,000 · OtherISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…BETH ZION BETH ISRAEL: $33,790 · OtherBETH ZION BETH ISRAELFEDERATION OF JEWISH AGENCIES: $25,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherLEGACY YOUTH TENNIS: $20,000 · Other+67 more: $183,209 · Other+67 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $193,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…+1 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $60,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $45,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,100 · EnvironmentSHARING EXCESS: $20,250 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$759,779Education$590,292Other$497,874Philanthropy$196,500International$70,000Environment$46,100Food & Nutrition$22,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $480,547 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Liberty Museum: $393,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $216,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $193,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $67,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $55,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $45,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING ALLOWED: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Interfaith Institute: $7,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $6,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,115 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $554 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ART: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYRIC FEST: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
  • Who funds FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
  • Who funds AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds 1807 & FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds READING ALLOWED ↗
  • Who funds American Interfaith Institute ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗

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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…The Philadelphia Cult…Connelly FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The University of the…Future Standard Found…Independence Foundati…The Barra Foundation …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Jewish Federation of …The Albert M Greenfie…
The William Penn FoundationPA36.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The University of the Arts · Future Standard Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Albert M Greenfield Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Borowsky Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Borowsky Family Foundation 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 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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