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Louis Nayovitz Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$74k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$136kArts & Culture$126kHealth$62kPublic Benefit$31kReligion$15kHousing & Shelter$13kCrime & Legal$11kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT$9,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$7,500
WHYY$5,000
MOSS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$5,000
PHILLIPS ACADEMY - ADDISON GALLERY$4,500
CHESTNUT HILL FRIENDS MEETING$4,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA$3,100
ROSENBACH MUSEUM & LIBRARY$2,700
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA$2,500
CENTER FOR LAW AND CULTURE$2,000
FEMALE HEBREW BENEV SOCIETY$2,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$2,000
PROJECT HOME$2,000
PHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION$2,000
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$1,700
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 (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 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

WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
NC
DC

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$413k · 57 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
18

Total granted

$413k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-32%

Still filing today

51%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TM
    The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents
    7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +25%
  • TR
    THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +112%
  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $14k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AE
    ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • US
    UPA SCHOOL OF SOCAIL WORK
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • AP
    AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +126%

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
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
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
3
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.

4
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Albright College

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

Education
7
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
8
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
9
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
10
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
11
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
12
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

The athenaeum of philadelphia nurtures curiosity in members and neighbors, strengthening community through learning, discourse and meaningful engagement. the athenaeum is a historic and vibrant philadelphia-centered and member-supported…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Environmental Protection Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr14%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%65%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
12%
5,860/48,019

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

43 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 80 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOSS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $30,000 · OtherMOSS REHABILITATION HOSPITALPHILA MUSEUM OF ART — $20,350 · OtherPHILA MUSEUM OF ARTUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT — $17,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL DEVELOPMENTCHESNUT HILL FRIENDS MEETING — $17,100 · OtherCHESNUT HILL FRIENDS MEETINGPHILLIPS ACADEMY - ADDISON GALLERY — $15,500 · OtherPHILLIPS ACADEMY - ADDISON GALLERYIndividual grant recipient — $10,700 · OtherCENTER FOR LAW AND CULTURE — $10,000 · OtherFJA - WOMEN OF VISION — $8,000 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Other+43 more — $87,850 · Other+43 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $34,000 · EducationTemple University - …TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $14,300 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS…Wellesley College — $9,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · EducationSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSI…GUILFORD COLLEGE — $7,000 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGETRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIV…+3 more — $3,200 · EducationTHE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA — $15,200 · Arts & CultureTHE ROSENBACH OF T…PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $13,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHE…WHYY INC — $11,500 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $10,550 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDAT…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL …MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $7,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMER…+5 more — $4,600 · Arts & Culture+5 moreThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents — $26,000 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthPHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION — $10,500 · Crime & LegalPENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS — $6,930 · Crime & LegalPROJECT HOME — $11,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC — $550 · Human ServicesPhilabundance — $4,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$224,800Education$80,750Arts & Culture$69,850Health$26,100Crime & Legal$17,430Human Services$11,550Food & Nutrition$8,000

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 budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents — $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA — $15,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $14,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $10,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWellesley College — $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS — $6,930 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL — $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS LTD — $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC — $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION — $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS REHABILITATION PROGRAM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDCAMP FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY FUND — $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH EQUITY — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $100 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.

  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents
  • Who funds THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WHYY INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds Philabundance
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE
  • Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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 FoundationPA28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Louis Nayovitz 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Louis Nayovitz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Louis Nayovitz 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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