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The Epstein-Whitman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Epstein-Whitman Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2019
14
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$7kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$5kReligion$4kCivil Rights$4kRecreation & Sports$4kEnvironment$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2019 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES$3,500
BICYCLE COALITION OF PHILADELPHIA$3,250
HAZON INSTITUTE$3,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,000
MANN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$720
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL$600
CADENCE CYCLING FOUNDATION$400
THEATRE ARIEL$200
TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART$150
WHARTON ESCHERICK MUSEUM$120
ABRAMSON CENTER$111
TIFERET BET ISRAEL$100
KURTZ HOME INC$100
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$50
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%KURTZ HOME INC: $100 → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50 → 16%GREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE: $100 → 6%AMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY: $7k → 7%THE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $300 → 10%THEATRE ARIEL: $200 → 22%MAZON: $1k → 14%TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART: $150 → 17%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $3k → 14%ANSHEI EMUNA CONGREGATION: $3k → 11%CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES: $4k → 7%CHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION: $1k → 11%BARNSTONE ART FOR KIDS: $100 → 6%TIFERET BET ISRAEL: $100 → 7%PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS PROGRAM: $3k → 22%TREVOR DAY SCHOOL: $250 → 17%WHARTON ESCHERICK MUSEUM: $120 → 6%ABRAMSON CENTER: $111 → 7%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 22%HAZON INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE: $100 → 7%MOORE COLLEGE OF ART: $500 → 22%ACLU FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BICYCLE COALITION OF PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 22%CADENCE CYCLING FOUNDATION: $400 → 22%MENZ FIT: $100 → 22%SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL: $600 → 22%MANN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $720 → 22%ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 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

NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
DE
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 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
Albright College

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

Education
2
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
3
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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4
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
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
12
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc; 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

14 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. 14 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
14/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY: $6,500 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN-GURION UNIVERSITYBICYCLE COALITION OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,250 · OtherBICYCLE COALITION OF PHILADELPHIAHAZON INSTITUTE: $3,000 · OtherHAZON INSTITUTEANSHEI EMUNA CONGREGATION: $3,000 · OtherANSHEI EMUNA CONGREGATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,050 · OtherCHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATION: $1,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 · OtherMANN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $720 · Other+11 more: $1,831 · Other+11 moreCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyCHESAPEAKE …PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHI…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $600 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT …Theatre Ariel: $200 · Arts & CultureTheatre Ari…+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $2,500 · EnvironmentED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsTHE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $300 · EducationTrevor Day School: $250 · Education
Other$21,351Philanthropy$3,500Arts & Culture$3,400Environment$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,000Civil Rights$1,000Education$550

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNSTONE ART FOR KIDS: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50 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.

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 Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Epstein-Whitman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Epstein-Whitman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Epstein-Whitman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Epstein-Whitman Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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