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The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc

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.

$598k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$500kEducation$215kHuman Services$113kArts & Culture$111kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kPhilanthropy$7kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$500,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$35,000
ART IN HISTORY GALLERY$25,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE$15,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE$10,000
UNREPORTED STORY SOCIETY$5,000
RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$3,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 22%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 22%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 22%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 22%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $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

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
SC
DC
TX
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$400k · 7 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$400k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-29%

Still filing today

86%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    4× · 2022–2025 · $208k · revenue +9%
  • HS
    HOWARD STIRK HOLDINGS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +43%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • SV
    STRATHAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • PB
    PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • TL
    THE LORD'S PLACE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -29%
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
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
2
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
4
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
5
New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
8
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
9
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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10
The Phyllis and Perry Schwartz Foundation
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11
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Olalashe Foundation Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500,000 · OtherBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALART IN HISTORY GALLERY: $25,000 · OtherSTRATHAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $16,275 · OtherBowdoin College: $207,500 · EducationBowdoin CollegeHOWARD STIRK HOLDINGS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationHOWARD STIRK HOLDINGS JOURNALIS…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILD…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,500 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUnreported Story Society: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOLALASHE FOUNDATION INC: $7,400 · EnvironmentTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$566,275Education$269,500Human Services$110,000Arts & Culture$25,500Environment$7,400Housing & Shelter$5,000

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 budgetBowdoin College: $207,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLALASHE FOUNDATION INC: $7,400 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $3,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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, 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 18 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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