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Harry a Lieberman 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.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$465kEducation$109kInternational$84kFood & Nutrition$62kCivil Rights$51kRecreation & Sports$37kEnvironment$34kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
HEREDITARY DISEASE FOUNDATION$30,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$9,000
FEEDING AMERICA$7,000
PBS NEWS HOUR$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
RAICES$5,000
MACCABI USA$5,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$3,000
WATERORG$3,000
WORLD RESOURCE INSTITUTE$3,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$3,000
SMILE TRAIN$2,000
CENTRAL PA FOOD BANK$2,000
TOUCH OF HEART FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TOUCH OF HEART FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%TRANSFORMATION YOGA PROJECT: $100 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$879k · 37 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
21

Total granted

$879k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

84%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +280%
  • LM
    LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +103%
  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +4%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -29%
  • THE BAIL PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -85%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
3
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
6
Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
9
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
10
Human Rights Watch Inc

Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…

International
11
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
12
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceChristian Missionary Organi…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Lgbtq+ Community CentersGovernment Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionDevelopmental Disabilities …South Asian Cultural and Sp…Community Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Pregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%69%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,514

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $262,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATIONLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $130,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION+2 more — $7,550 · HealthHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $48,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE …NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNSIL — $19,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DE…EARTH JUSTICE — $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherHILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $8,000 · OtherBVSPCA — $7,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $16,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM O…HOUNDS IN POUNDS INC — $8,500 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $9,000 · Other+20 more — $41,400 · Other+20 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $85,500 · EducationTemple Unive…SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH…+1 more — $3,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $35,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $13,000 · InternationalINTERNATIO…WATERORG — $12,000 · InternationalWATERORGINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $10,000 · InternationalINTERNATIO…RAINFOREST TRUST — $3,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $3,000 · International+9 more — $12,000 · International+9 moreFeeding America — $28,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $20,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $4,000 · Food & NutritionREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $17,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $8,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $3,000 · Civil RightsMACCABI USA INC — $35,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$399,550Other$174,400Education$103,500International$88,000Food & Nutrition$62,000Civil Rights$53,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $262,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $85,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $48,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMACCABI USA INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUNDS IN POUNDS INC — $8,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLETX — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $1,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUDAY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATION YOGA PROJECT — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Lincoln Financial Fou…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Harry a Lieberman 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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