· Private foundation
The Dorothy B and S Lawrence Koplovitz
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $15,500 |
| GRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER | $14,117 |
| DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER | $10,000 |
| KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES | $8,500 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET | $2,500 |
| CHISUK EMUNA CONGREGATION | $2,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA | $1,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $734 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -2% since the first grant, against -73% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GPGRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +10%
- RDRABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +10%
- CACAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- TSTHE SILVER ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -73%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
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…
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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…
The german society of pennsylvania seeks to further the understanding of german and german american contributions to the growth of american history and culture from the past to the present and into the future.
To inspire individuals and organizations to create a better future through historical understanding.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Incorporated on july 2, 1951, the allentown symphony association (asa) is the operating organization of the allentown symphony orchestra (aso)and miller symphony hall (msh). the mission of the asa is to provide a first-class orchestra and…
It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Birdlife International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds RABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Hall Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · The Carole Desoto Foundation · McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta
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 The Dorothy B and S Lawrence Koplovitz 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.
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.