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Savitz Family 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.

$14k
Granted FY2018
6
Grants FY2018
6
Organizations funded FY2018
17%
First-time grantees FY2018
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100% of Savitz Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Savitz Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $14k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
5
’18
3
’19
2
’20
1
’21
1
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$14k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 17% of the organizations Savitz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20186$14k17%
FY201710$19kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$127kArts & Culture$32kInternational$12kHuman Services$10kEducation$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$16,90040%
Foreign Policy Research Institute$12,00010%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$9,00030%
Encore Series Inc$2,00020%
Curtis Institute of Music$1,50020%
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society$1,50020%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$1,50020%
The Barnes Foundation$1,00010%
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Savitz Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $16,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetForeign Policy Research Institute: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEncore Series Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCurtis Institute of Music: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Youth Orchestra: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Savitz Family Foundation

How much does Savitz Family Foundation give?
Savitz Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $13,750 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Savitz Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Arts & Culture (17%), International (6%).
Who are Savitz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History ($17k), Foreign Policy Research Institute ($12k), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ($9k).
Does Savitz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Savitz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Savitz Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Savitz Family Foundation based?
Savitz Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 15 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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