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Leo Niessen Jr Charitable Tr-Main

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$308k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2025.

Education$290kArts & Culture$228kCommunity Improvement$143kHealth$108kReligion$85kHuman Services$78kYouth Development$65kRecreation & Sports$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $198k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$25,000
A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$18,000
HOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM$10,000
FUND FOR GIRARD COLLEGE$10,000
DRUEDING CENTER$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE DELAWARE VALLEY$10,000
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION$10,000
HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY$10,000
COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FO$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILLY$10,000
WILLIAM H GRAY III MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$10,000
PROJECT HOME$10,000
EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $25k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%DRUEDING CENTER: $10k → 22%DRUEDING CENTER: $10k → 22%BANCROFT NEUROHEALTH: $3k → 12%DRUEDING CENTER: $8k → 22%DRUEDING CENTER: $8k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $5k → 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

NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
DC
TX

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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$881k · 35 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
30

Total granted

$881k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +254%
  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +79%
  • TC
    THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • CR
    CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +36%
  • WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • JR
    JEWISH RUSSIAN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
7
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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8
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
9
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
10
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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11
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Organizati…Community College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…School Parent OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportPublic Library OperationsYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr15%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr15%36%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
3,662/27,359

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 83 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
40/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER OF — $52,500 · OtherGREATER PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER OFRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL — $40,000 · OtherRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOLPrecision Institute — $27,500 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY JEWISH CENTER — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETYIPRAXIS — $42,500 · OtherIPRAXISA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC — $36,613 · OtherA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INCAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $18,000 · OtherNUEVA ESPERANZA INC — $20,000 · Other+32 more — $220,500 · Other+32 moreACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $37,500 · EducationACADEMY IN MANAYUNKLA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITYHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY UNIVERS…WISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL — $21,500 · EducationWISSAHICKON CHARTER…CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $17,500 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADEL…MANOR COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationMANOR COLLEGECHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $12,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARS…GLEN MILLS SCHOOLS — $10,000 · EducationGIRARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Education+7 more — $25,000 · Education+7 moreNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $125,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUT…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC S…KIMMEL CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INCWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM H GRAY III MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM — $47,500 · HealthHOLY REDE…The Devereux Foundation — $20,000 · HealthThe Dever…EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $10,000 · HealthEAGLES AU…CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 · HealthCONGRESO …HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthHEADSTRON…+2 more — $5,000 · HealthDRUEDING CENTER — $35,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE FUND FOR GIRARD COLLEGE — $27,500 · PhilanthropyG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Recreation & SportsANGEL FLIGHT EAST — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$517,613Education$206,500Arts & Culture$200,000Health$100,000Human Services$82,500Philanthropy$55,000Recreation & Sports$50,500

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 budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM — $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIPRAXIS — $42,500 over 5y, 33% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC — $36,613 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRUEDING CENTER — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR GIRARD COLLEGE — $27,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL — $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNUEVA ESPERANZA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Devereux Foundation — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANOR COLLEGE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEN MILLS SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT EAST — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STARTING POINT INC OF NEW JERSEY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHYY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Skilling Joseph Kenna…The Cedarcrest Charit…The Patricia Kind Fam…Business Leadership O…The Maguire FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA54.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Skilling Joseph Kennard Td · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Maguire Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main

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 Leo Niessen Jr Charitable Tr-Main 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 · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nueva Esperanza Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 83 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

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