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Fleischner Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $770k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $421k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ALMA LEWIS | $75,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART | $66,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $55,000 |
| MURAL ARTS PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
| MANNA | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| ART21 INC | $40,000 |
| THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA | $35,441 |
| TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM | $25,000 |
| US SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| PILGRIM PLACE | $25,000 |
| MV YOUTH | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $274k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ALALMA LEWIS5× · 2020–2025 · $335k · revenue +435%
- AIART21 INC6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +94%
- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $318k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BNBAILEY-MATTHEW NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $100k
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2024 · $63k · revenue 0%- DWDARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $53k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
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…
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…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is Musizi University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 121 of the 168 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALMA LEWIS ↗
- Who funds ART21 INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ST EDMUND'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PILGRIM PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TISBURY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY ROWING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HEATHER'S WAY ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Fine Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Arts Equity & Education Fund · The Benter Foundation · McElhattan Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fleischner Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Boston Art Review Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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