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Robert Saligman Charitable Trust

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.

$873k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MEducation$533kHealth$200kReligion$136kHousing & Shelter$135kEnvironment$105kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $630k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH FILM CENTER$135,000
YOUR AGENCY INCORPORATED$125,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$101,000
JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$94,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$75,000
FUNDABLE$35,000
PROJECT HOME$35,000
JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT$35,000
JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$30,000
FEDERATION HOUSING$25,000
MURAL ARTS$20,000
SEGA SCHOOL$20,000
PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$10,000
SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT$10,000
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 (FY24–24, $45k) 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: $35k → 22%SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT: $10k → 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

VT
NY
MA
OH
PA
UT
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Robert Saligman Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Robert Saligman Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 17 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
18

Total granted

$2.3M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+3%

Still filing today

76%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionEnvironmentOther

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

  • YA
    YOUR AGENCY INCORPORATED
    4× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue +87% · 37% of their budget
  • JM
    JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +28%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • WE
    WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue -47%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue +35%
  • MD
    MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -26%

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 Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
3
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
4
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
5
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington Dc Inc

Guided by jewish values and heritage, the edlavitch dc jewish community center (edcjcc) engages individuals and families through its cultural, recreational, educational, and social justice programs by welcoming people of all backgrounds to…

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6
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Center for Jewish Culture

San diego center for jewish culture ("cjc") is a california 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in january 1999. cjc is housed at lawrence family jewish community centers of san diego county. cjc provides a wide…

Arts & Culture
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
11
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Communities of Vermont Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr17%52%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr17%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%17%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr17%41%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 17% 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%0/34
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,128

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.

05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 43 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUR AGENCY INCORPORATED — $550,000 · Arts & CultureYOUR AGENCY INCORPORATEDPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $375,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $190,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN J…UTAH FILM CENTER — $135,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $78,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,240,667 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA…JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $400,000 · OtherJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADE…JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $120,000 · OtherJEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATI…FEDERATION HOUSING — $100,000 · OtherFEDERATION HOUSINGFUNDABLE — $60,000 · OtherFUNDABLERAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 · Other+17 more — $268,145 · Other+17 moreKIVUNIM — $50,000 · EducationNURTURING MINDS INC — $42,500 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $37,500 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC — $111,000 · ReligionNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $105,000 · EnvironmentPROJECT HOME — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,378,000Philanthropy$1,240,667Other$998,145Education$172,500Religion$111,000Environment$105,000Human Services$45,000

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,240,667 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetYOUR AGENCY INCORPORATED — $550,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $400,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $190,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $135,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC — $111,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $105,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetKIVUNIM — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC — $42,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC — $33,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $28,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — $27,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNK — $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY — $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN CREATORS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFRINGEARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWY BODY DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetInliquidcom Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION — $2,500 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.

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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…The Philadelphia Cult…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Snider FoundationGreater Philadelphia …The Cozen O'Connor Fo…The Saramar Charitabl…Independence Foundati…Raynier Institute & F…Central Pennsylvania …The Cigna Group Found…
The William Penn FoundationPA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance · The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Independence Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Cigna Group 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 Saligman Charitable Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report 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

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 Saligman Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Robert Saligman Charitable Trust 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 43 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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