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Renee Fleming Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$169k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$149k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$357kSocial Science$303kHealth$88kHuman Services$34kScience & Tech$10kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $149k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$149,308
SING FOR HOPE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AGMA RELIEF FUND: $5k → 17%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

IL
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$590k · 7 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$590k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
0%

Still filing today

86%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureSocial ScienceHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther
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

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $303k · revenue +91%
  • SF
    SING FOR HOPE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +65%
  • BM
    BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUND FOR THE NATL INST OF HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $62k
  • PF
    POLYPHONY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -79%
  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA HOUSE OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
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.

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Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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3
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
4
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
5
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc

The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
8
Florida Grand Opera Inc

The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…

Arts & Culture
9
Art of Opera a Foundation

Art of Opera is dedicated to creating opera, music theater and multimedia based projects, commissioning composers to compose and arrange music for small chamber concerts and supporting the release of recordings.

Arts & Culture
10
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Sphinx Organization Inc

Transforming lives through the power of the arts.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opera America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Institute for Young Dramatic Voices 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $302,708 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOUND FOR THE NATL INST OF HEALTH: $61,850 · OtherFOUND FOR THE NATL INST OF HEALTHPOLYPHONY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherPOLYPHONY FOUNDATIONLYRIC OPERA HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $35,875 · OtherLYRIC OPERA HOUSE OF CHICAGOEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $25,000 · OtherEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSICIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $7,176 · OtherSING FOR HOPE INC: $113,500 · Arts & CultureSING FOR HOPE INCBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBETH MORRISON PROJECTS IN…OPERA ON TAP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA ON TAP+4 more: $11,750 · Arts & Culture+4 moreAGMA RELIEF FUND: $21,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthJazz Foundation of America Inc: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Social Science$302,708Other$289,901Arts & Culture$185,250Human Services$21,000Education$20,000Health$12,500Philanthropy$3,000

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 budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $302,708 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSING FOR HOPE INC: $113,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetPOLYPHONY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAGMA RELIEF FUND: $21,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA ON TAP: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE TO BE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Howard and Sarah …Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Howard and Sarah D Solomon FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Renee Fleming Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renee Fleming Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Renee Fleming Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Renee Fleming 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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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