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Lois Lehrman Grass Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2018–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAY ON PHILLY | $35,561 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG | $25,000 |
| MARKET SQUARE CONCERTS | $13,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MSMARKET SQUARE CONCERTS3× · 2018–2021 · $39k · revenue +37%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +54%
- SFSUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CRCAPITAL REGION ARTS AND EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +16%
- OSOpen Stage of Harrisburgone grant, 2018 · $28k · revenue -25%
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.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
To promote interest in an appreciation for and enjoyment of the arts. to conduct festivals of the arts. to plan and conduct other programs which will advance the arts and improve an appreciation for and enjoyment of the arts.
To create a musical community where high quality instruction and performance opportunities are available to all.
The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.
To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.
Citizens for the arts in pennsylvania (cfa/pa) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization advocating for funding and for public policies, all to ensure the vibrant practice and appreciation of the arts and culture across the commonwealth of…
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
Cosmic symphony nurtures the performance of high quality orchestral music, showcasing southern maryland talent.
It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hospice of Central Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MARKET SQUARE CONCERTS ↗
- Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
- Who funds Open Stage of Harrisburg ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE THEATRE HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ENRICHMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Harrisburg Assoc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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: United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Hall Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta · The Dorothy B and S Lawrence Koplovitz
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 Lois Lehrman Grass 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.
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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