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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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,500,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$55M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Joseph and Marie Field Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureSocial ScienceEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$3.4M0%
FY202423$2.9M9%
FY202323$3.0M9%
FY202222$3.5M14%
FY202123$2.6M9%
FY202024$2.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$6.5MPhilanthropy$4.6MEducation$2.3MHealth$1.7MInternational$800kPublic Benefit$610kEnvironment$550kCivil Rights$475kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joseph and Marie Field Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCurtis Institute of Music: $2,000,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc: $1,500,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $1,000,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAtlanta Ballet Inc: $700,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetConcerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia: $600,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPA Alliance Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetForeign Policy Research Institute: $400,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetMedia Matters for America: $400,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation: $300,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $300,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $225,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of the American Revolution: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Liberty Museum: $155,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWhyy Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMusicopia Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSettlement Music School of Philadelphia: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Book Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William Penn FoundationPA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Joseph and Marie Field Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph and Marie Field 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.

About Joseph and Marie Field Foundation

How much does Joseph and Marie Field Foundation give?
Joseph and Marie Field Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $3,355,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Joseph and Marie Field Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Philanthropy (25%), Education (13%).
Who are Joseph and Marie Field Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Curtis Institute of Music ($2.0M), Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc ($1.5M), Philadelphia Orchestra Association ($1.0M).
Does Joseph and Marie Field Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph and Marie Field Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph and Marie Field Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc.
Where is Joseph and Marie Field Foundation based?
Joseph and Marie Field Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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