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Straus-Harris 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.

$628k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$160k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MHuman Services$428kRecreation & Sports$87kCommunity Improvement$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $540k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mural Arts Program$160,000
Nationalities Service Center$110,000
InterAct Theatre Company$70,000
1812 Theater Company$50,000
Theatre Exile$50,000
Lantern Theater Company$50,000
The Center - Philadephia$50,000
Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial$30,000
Settlement Music School$30,000
Ballet X$10,000
Philadelphia Scenic Works$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Inis Nua Theatre Company$4,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $428k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%Nationalities Service Center: $110k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $80k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $70k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $50k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $40k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $28k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $25k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $25k → 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.

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 19% of Straus-Harris Foundation’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, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Straus-Harris Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 12 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
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Total granted

$2.0M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-7%

Still filing today

58%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NS
    NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $428k · revenue +151%
  • LT
    LANTERN THEATER COMPANY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +12%
  • SS
    SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PT
    PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -7%

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.

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The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture
2
Shakespeare in Clark Park

Shakespeare in Clark Park produces cultural events which bridge the gap between audiences and artists by inviting community members to take part in making and shaping our productions. Our productions are rooted in the people of…

Arts & Culture
3
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
4
P & J Theater Works
Arts & Culture
5
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

7
Allentown Public Theatre

Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.

Arts & Culture
8
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
9
Fm Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

It is the mission of the f. m. kirby center to foster the development of the arts by promoting, producing, and causing to be produced theatrical productions, exhibits and other entertainment as deemed to have a benefical impact. continued…

Arts & Culture
10
Theatre Philadelphia

Theatre philadelphia is a leadership organization that celebrates and promotes professional theatre in the greater philadelphia region, primarily via the barrymore awards for excellence in theatre.

Arts & Culture
11
Philadelphia Dance Company

The organization presents the highest quality of professional dance performance and improves the skills of emerging and professional dances and choregraphers in a nurturing environment while increasing the appreciation of dance among it's…

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lantern Theater Company and the most unlike its peers is Balletx. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mural Arts Program — $510,000 · OtherMural Arts ProgramInterAct Theatre Company — $165,000 · OtherInterAct Theatre Company1812 Theater Company — $134,000 · Other1812 Theater CompanyCity of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program — $75,000 · OtherCity of Philadelphia Mural Arts ProgramInteract Theater — $75,000 · OtherInteract Theater+1 more — $4,000 · OtherTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY — $117,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE EXILE COMPANYLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $110,000 · Arts & CultureLANTERN THEATER COMPANYSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC — $91,000 · Arts & CultureSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEM…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $91,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL O…+4 more — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $428,450 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CE…PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC — $87,000 · EnvironmentCENTER-PHILADELPHIA — $70,000 · Community Improvement
Other$963,000Arts & Culture$439,000Human Services$428,450Environment$87,000Community Improvement$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $428,450 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY — $117,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $110,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC — $91,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $91,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC — $87,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER-PHILADELPHIA — $70,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBALLETX — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SCENIC WORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY
  • Who funds LANTERN THEATER COMPANY
  • Who funds SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC
  • Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds CENTER-PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds BALLETX
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA SCENIC WORKS
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY
  • Who funds INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY

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 Philadelphia FoundationPA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund Sheldon Bonovitz Trustee · The Sylvia W and Randle M Kauders Foundation Inc · Independence Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Victory Foundation · The Lida Foundation · Ludwick Fdn

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 Straus-Harris 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Straus-Harris Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Straus-Harris 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 17 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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