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Horowitz Family 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.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$336kArts & Culture$161kHealth$137kHuman Services$87kReligion$79kCivil Rights$24kPhilanthropy$22kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,750
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$15,000
BETH AM ISRAEL$7,380
ADAGIO HEALTH$5,000
ISSUE ONE$5,000
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY$5,000
PENNSYLVANIA SPCA$2,500
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
MIGHTY WRITERS$2,000
HIAS$1,800
PHILADELPHIA ZOO$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
ALS UNITED MID ATLANTIC$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
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 (FY20–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JUDITH CREED HOMES FOR ADULT INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PEOPLES EMERGENCY CENTER: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $23k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $21k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $8k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 22%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

NH
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
GA
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 66% of Horowitz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 29% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Horowitz Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$808k · 42 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
13

Total granted

$808k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+72%

Still filing today

74%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +50%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +119%
  • TW
    THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $112k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SC
    SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +8%
  • I1
    IMPACT 100
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +253%

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
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
2
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
3
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
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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6
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
7
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
8
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…

Philanthropy
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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11
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Up Philly and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr20%35%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%39%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
12%
4,259/35,018

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.

05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 67 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $250,000 · OtherRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOLCONGREGATION BETH AM ISRAEL — $75,130 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AM ISRAELPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $15,000 · Other+38 more — $90,360 · Other+38 moreNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $125,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUT…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $9,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEU…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $8,970 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $112,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTI…ALS Hope Foundation — $15,000 · HealthALS Hope Foundat…ADAGIO HEALTH INC — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $2,800 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $71,700 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $6,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUI…PROJECT HOME — $4,500 · Human ServicesJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE — $3,500 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $52,833 · EducationTRUSTEES O…OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $15,000 · EducationOVERBROOK …MIGHTY WRITERS — $8,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRI…Orot — $6,300 · EducationOrot+2 more — $750 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT100 PHILADELPHIA INC — $2,400 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropySHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$430,490Arts & Culture$147,970Health$134,800Human Services$86,200Education$82,883Philanthropy$22,900Food & Nutrition$20,000

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 budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $112,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $71,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $52,833 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALS Hope Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $6,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetOrot — $6,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC — $6,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISSUE ONE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADAGIO HEALTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $4,120 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSINGING CITY INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWHYY INC — $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT100 PHILADELPHIA INC — $2,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEPHL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM UP PHILLY — $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Saramar Charitabl…The Philadelphia Foun…Katz Family Charitabl…Erlbaum Family Founda…Independence Foundati…Jewish Federation of …Gitlin Family Foundat…The Garbose Family Fo…Samuel D Cozen Memori…The Specter FoundationThe Daniel B and Flor…United Way of Greater…
The Saramar Charitable FundPA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Philadelphia Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Gitlin Family Foundation · The Garbose Family Foundation William Garbose & Lynne Garbose Ttees · Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund · The Specter Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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 Horowitz Family 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Horowitz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Horowitz 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines