· Private foundation
Lotsch Zelman Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE SHOLOM | $1,760 |
| WHYY-TV 12 AND 92 FM | $1,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY - ARTS AND SCI | $1,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY-SCHOOL OF BUS | $500 |
| SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| HIRAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| SACOPEE RESCUE UNIT | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PA-FUND FOR PENN MED | $500 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY-LEBOW COLL OF BUS | $500 |
| MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| TOWN OF HIRAM FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
| BONNEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $500 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $500 |
| MAINE WOODLAND OWNERS ASSOC | $500 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY-SHELLER 11TH ST | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +29%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +18%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HHHELP HUMANITARIAN RELIEF IN UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $605
- PCPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEO MEDone grant, 2024 · $500
- PAPBS39 AND 913 WLVRone grant, 2023 · $300
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.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SACOPEE RESCUE UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CRADLE ADOPTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lotsch Zelman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lotsch Zelman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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