· Private foundation
Jane & Leonard Korman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $319k
- $250k+5 grants · $5.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KORMAN FELDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,950,229 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA DAF | $1,478,640 |
| JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY -RESPIRATORY CENTER - 6TH OF 7 (MULTI YEAR) | $500,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATHER PHILA | $407,312 |
| MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART- FINAL PLEDGE (MULTI YEAR) | $240,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH OR | $79,000 |
| JEFFERSON HOSPITAL | $49,400 |
| FABRIC WORKSHOP | $25,000 |
| WILLS EYE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GERMANTOWN ACADEMY- ANNUAL FUND | $20,000 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART-WOMENS COMMITTEE (CRAFT) | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - MORRIS ARBORETUM-GENERAL | $12,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Jane & Leonard Korman 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, 85% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +87% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
- MCMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $303k · revenue +139%
- TBTHE BARNES FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- JUJEFFERSON UNIVERSITY -RESPIRATORY CENTER - 3RD OF 7 (MULTI YEAR)one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- JUJEFFERSON UNIVERSITY -RESPIRATORY CENTER - 1ST OF 7 (MULTI YEAR)one grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- JUJEFFERSON UNIVERSITY -RESPIRATORY CENTER - 2ND OF 7 (MULTI YEAR)one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Korman Feldman Family 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 75% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 86 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 KORMAN FELDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Whitemarsh Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKEY HOLLOW COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The William Penn Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Honickman Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Jane & Leonard Korman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 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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