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Robert H & Janet S Fleisher Foundation

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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$469kEducation$117kHealth$47kEnvironment$45kInternational$45kHuman Services$26kFood & Nutrition$23kCivil Rights$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$699k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM$20,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$7,000
THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$7,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$7,000
THE CLAY STUDIO$5,000
THE UNITED SOMMELIERS FOUNDATION$2,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$2,500
WHYY$1,500
PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT$1,000
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE$1,000
FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL$1,000
FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE$1,000
MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$1,000
CREATIVE GROWTH ART CENTER$1,000
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 (FY19–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE UNITED SOMMELIERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%SARAH'S INN: $3k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $3k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $250 → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 7%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $500 → 17%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $1k → 22%EMIR HEALING CENTER: $500 → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $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
IL
NY
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NV
PA
NJ
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CA
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DC
OK
AL
FL

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$728k · 51 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
49

Total granted

$728k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentFood & 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

  • TC
    THE CLAY STUDIO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $259k · revenue +41%
  • MC
    MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +70%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CI
    CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +14%
  • OREGON FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +50%

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
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
2
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
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
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
8
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
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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11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Child Advocates and the most unlike its peers is United Sommeliers Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsDomestic Violence ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library Operations
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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr17%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr15%55%35–55yr17%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,073

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

86 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. 86 of the 108 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/86
Grantees still filing
61/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CLAY STUDIO — $258,750 · Arts & CultureTHE CLAY STUDIOTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $41,750 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATIONCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSICWHYY INC — $18,950 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $32,650 · Arts & Culture+13 moreFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $23,000 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FO…FUND FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $18,000 · OtherFUND FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHI…REACH OUT AND READ — $14,500 · OtherREACH OUT AND READSALVATION ARMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $11,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · OtherTHE SIERRA CLUB INTERNATIONAL — $8,000 · OtherPhilabundance — $9,359 · Other+55 more — $132,500 · Other+55 moreMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $42,000 · EducationMOORE COL…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,500 · EducationWILLIAM J…+3 more — $3,500 · EducationThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $58,000 · EmploymentThe Fistula Foundation — $12,300 · HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC — $11,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA — $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $7,000 · HealthCreative Growth Art Center — $5,000 · HealthWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND — $2,500 · Health+3 more — $2,500 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $2,000 · International+2 more — $2,000 · InternationalSolar Cookers International — $11,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $9,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $5,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE — $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC — $1,500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$377,100Other$237,359Education$71,000Employment$58,000Health$56,800International$31,000Environment$31,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO — $258,750 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $58,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $41,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHYY INC — $18,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation — $12,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSolar Cookers International — $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPhilabundance — $9,359 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S INN — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSRQ STRONG INC FORMERLY CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE — $5,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLETX — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATH HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN ANGELS EQUINE RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE — $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL — $3,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE COLUMNS INC — $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ART ALLIANCE PHILADELPHIA ART ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS — $2,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PRINT CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Philadelphia Cult…Independence Foundati…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Future Standard Found…The Barra Foundation …United Way of Greater…Ludwick FdnThe Robert Wood Johns…
Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust UwPA44.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Independence Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Ludwick Fdn · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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 Robert H & Janet S Fleisher 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Period Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert H & Janet S Fleisher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert H & Janet S Fleisher 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 108 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.

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