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Joseph and Marie Field Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$100,000
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA$100,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$100,000
YALE LAW SCHOOL$50,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$50,000
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA$50,000
PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$50,000
PHILADELPHIA ZOO$50,000
RAICES$25,000
MUSICOPIA$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $100k → 6%PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 22%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $1.5M → 7%ATLANTA BALLET: $200k → 13%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $100k → 6%PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 22%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $1.0M → 7%ATLANTA BALLET: $200k → 13%PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 22%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $1.0M → 7%ATLANTA BALLET: $200k → 13%PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 22%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $1.0M → 7%ATLANTA BALLET: $200k → 13%PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 22%ATLANTA BALLET: $100k → 13%PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $500k → 22%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $100k → 17%MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $500k → 22%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $100k → 17%MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $500k → 22%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $100k → 17%MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%CURTIS INSTITUTE-FIELD CONCERT HALL: $500k → 22%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $100k → 17%MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $300k → 22%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $100k → 17%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $100k → 22%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $100k → 17%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $300k → 22%PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $200k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $100k → 22%CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CCPPR: $168k → 22%PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $500k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITA: $250k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITA: $250k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $250k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITA: $250k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITA: $250k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $250k → 22%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $200k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 26 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
7

Total granted

$16M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+123%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureCivil RightsInternationalEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +95%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • CI
    CURTIS INSTITUTE-FIELD CONCERT HALL
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • PA
    PA Alliance Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +353% · 32% of their budget
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +123%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
3
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
4
Point Park University

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…

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5
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
8
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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9
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
10
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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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11
National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is America's leading platform for nonpartisan constitutional education and civil dialogue. We bring together people of all ages and perspectives, across America and around the world, to learn about, debate,…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT: $4,500,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,200,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGECURTIS INSTITUTE-FIELD CONCERT HALL: $500,000 · OtherCURTIS INSTITUTE-FIELD CONCERT HALLFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherYALE LAW SCHOOL: $300,000 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $300,000 · Other+7 more: $785,000 · Other+7 moreCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSICPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIO…ATLANTA BALLET INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INCCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA: $600,000 · Arts & CultureCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHEST…Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: $300,000 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Chamber Music Societ…MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $560,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $1,500,000 · HealthTHOMAS JE…International Rescue Committee INC: $600,000 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $400,000 · InternationalPA Alliance Foundation: $500,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $225,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $200,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 · Civil RightsMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $400,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $381,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $250,000 · Environment
Other$7,885,000Arts & Culture$5,360,000Health$1,500,000International$1,000,000Civil Rights$975,000Education$791,000Environment$550,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $381,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • 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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…The Philadelphia Cult…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph and Marie Field Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Marie Field Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nantucket Book Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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