· Private foundation
Joseph and Marie Field 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT | $1,500,000 |
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $500,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITA | $250,000 |
| ATLANTA BALLET | $200,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ZOO | $50,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
| RAICES | $25,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% of your 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.
26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CICURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +95%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +97%
Funded once
- CICURTIS INSTITUTE-FIELD CONCERT HALLone grant, 2022 · $500k
- PAPA Alliance Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +353% · 32% of their budget
- ABATLANTA BALLETone grant, 2021 · $200k
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.
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To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation 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 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 35 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 CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PA Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds Keystone Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOOK 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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joseph and Marie Field 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.
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% 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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