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Susan and Leonard Lodish Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Susan and Leonard Lodish Charitable 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$96kArts & Culture$24kHealth$21kYouth Development$15kEducation$15kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$540
Median grant
4
States reached
$445k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE BETH HILLEL - BETH EL$7,470
PY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC$3,071
Individual grant recipient$1,854
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$540
ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC$500
CHABAD OF FLAGSTAFF$180
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$103
TORAH FUND CAMPAIGN OF WLCJ$100
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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $100 → 7%JOY TO THE WORLD FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%JOY TO THE WORLD FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $36 → 22%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YM: $100 → 7%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 27 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
28

Total granted

$182k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+16%

Still filing today

48%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TA
    Theatre Ariel
    5× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +72%
  • NB
    NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS
    5× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • GC
    GRATZ COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +343%
  • KC
    KENYON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • NH
    NEW HORIZON
    one grant, 2021 · $575
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
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
3
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
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
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
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
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
10
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Theatre Ariel. 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

29 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. 29 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH HILLEL - BETH EL: $83,995 · OtherTEMPLE BETH HILLEL - BETH ELALS ASSOCIATION: $19,597 · OtherALS ASSOCIATIONPENN HILLEL: $6,454 · Other+42 more: $30,942 · Other+42 moreTheatre Ariel: $22,150 · Arts & CultureTheatre Ariel+4 more: $556 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $14,700 · Youth DevelopmentGRATZ COLLEGE: $5,036 · EducationKENYON COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $2,625 · Education+1 more: $325 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,518 · PhilanthropyHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $1,000 · InternationalJEWISH RELIEF NETWORK UKRAINE: $700 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $103 · InternationalJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1,000 · Human ServicesJoy To The World Foundation: $1,000 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $200 · Human Services+1 more: $36 · Human Services
Other$140,988Arts & Culture$22,706Youth Development$14,700Education$10,986Philanthropy$2,518International$2,303Human Services$2,236

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTheatre Ariel: $22,150 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $14,700 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE: $5,036 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $2,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,518 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJoy To The World Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF NETWORK UKRAINE: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $615 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEVS FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $286 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNENVIRONMENT INC: $118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $18 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Theatre Ariel ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds Joy To The World Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RELIEF NETWORK UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds JEVS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Susan and Leonard Lodish Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan and Leonard Lodish Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–60%
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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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