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Shusterman 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.

$293k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$290kHuman Services$187kCivil Rights$173kArts & Culture$134kEnvironment$123kPhilanthropy$88kReligion$72kPublic Benefit$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$105,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
GRATZ COLLEGE$30,000
RESPONSIBLE PRESERVATION INC$22,500
TEMPLE SHOLOM IN BROOMALL$16,000
AMERICAN CONSITUTION SOCIETY$15,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$10,000
THE CENTER FOR COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE INC$10,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$6,500
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$6,100
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (NY)$6,000
HIAS PENNSYLVANIA$6,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE$5,200
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GR PHILADELPHIA$5,000
NPR$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $186k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $51k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $34k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $31k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $31k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $20k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 22%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

AK
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 43 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
34

Total granted

$1.0M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+27%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH
    7× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +102%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    7× · 2019–2025 · $157k · revenue +1%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • FA
    FLORIDA ALANTIC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
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
5
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
8
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
9
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
10
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
11
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
12
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for Aesthetics. 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

45 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. 45 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $119,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PE…TEMPLE SHOLOM IN BROOMALL: $54,325 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM IN BROOMALLAMERICAN CONSITUTION SOCIETY: $42,500 · OtherAMERICAN CONSITUTION SOCIETYTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS: $20,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GR PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $12,900 · Other+52 more: $116,780 · Other+52 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $157,250 · EducationTemple University - Of The…GRATZ COLLEGE: $114,000 · EducationGRATZ COLLEGE+6 more: $6,950 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $185,950 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND…WOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $71,400 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE M…The Center for Cosmopolitan Culture Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Center f…HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $21,740 · Arts & Culture+11 moreResponsible Preservation Inc: $112,600 · EnvironmentResponsibl…+1 more: $800 · EnvironmentJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $63,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $22,700 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$385,505Education$278,200Human Services$185,950Arts & Culture$129,140Environment$113,400Philanthropy$68,000Civil Rights$23,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $185,950 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $157,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $119,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE: $114,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetResponsible Preservation Inc: $112,600 over 4y, 40% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $71,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $63,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $22,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Cosmopolitan Culture Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhilabundance: $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $3,540 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LANDSCAPE STUDIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClean Air Council: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS D BRANDEIS LAW SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN SUPPORT NETWORK: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morikami Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELLENIC UNIVERSITY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Responsible Preservation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Cosmopolitan Culture Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗

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 William Penn Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The William Penn FoundationPA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shusterman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shusterman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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
    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.

    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 88 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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