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The Forman Family 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.

$475k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$25MEducation$3.0MRecreation & Sports$1.0MFood & Nutrition$569kReligion$518kPhilanthropy$405kYouth Development$401kHuman Services$345kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$300,000
RODEPH SHOLOM CONGREGATION$75,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE CAT COLLABORATIVE$25,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$10,000
WOMEN'S WAY$10,000
THE CLAY STUDIO$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $60k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $50k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $50k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $10k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $5k → 22%Philadelphia Contemporary: $500k → 22%Philadelphia Contemporary: $435k → 22%Parent Infant Center: $5k → 22%THE PARENT-INFANT CENTER: $5k → 22%Parent Infant Center: $5k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $15k → 22%THE CAT COLLABORATIVE: $165k → 22%THE CAT COLLABORATIVE: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DE
TX

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 42% of The Forman Family 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, 96% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Forman Family 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 30 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
39

Total granted

$30M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

70%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +14%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +21%
  • VF
    VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2017–2022 · $544k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $667k · revenue +62%
  • CC
    COBBS CREEK RESTR & COMM FNDN
    one grant, 2021 · $333k
  • AC
    ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +85%

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.

1
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
2
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
3
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
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Whyy Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
7
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
8
Peabody Essex Museum Inc

Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. we steward, build, and make our collections…

Arts & Culture
9
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
10
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
11
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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12
Moore College of Art and Design

Moore is dedicated to excellence in art and design. Founded in 1848, Moore is the first and only visual arts college for women in the US. With its undergraduate BFA degree for women and coeducational graduate programs, Moore cultivates…

Education

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

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%75%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr20%1%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 75% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
12%
4,260/35,010

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 74 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
43/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORMAN ARTS INITIATIVE INC — $20,877,500 · Arts & CultureFORMAN ARTS INITIATIVE INCPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $2,461,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART+15 more — $308,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORATION — $1,075,000 · OtherFRIENDS CE…RODEPH SHALOM CONGREGATION — $492,500 · OtherRODEPH SHA…COBBS CREEK RESTR & COMM FNDN — $333,333 · OtherCOBBS CREE…THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL — $240,000 · OtherTHE PHILAD…washington university of st louis — $115,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $105,000 · OtherCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $188,750 · OtherCENTER CIT…+25 more — $368,750 · Other+25 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $825,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $360,000 · EducationBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA — $250,000 · EducationREVOLUTION SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationEducation Law Center - PA — $66,500 · Education+4 more — $75,500 · EducationPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY — $995,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAT COLLABORATIVE — $190,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS WAY — $115,000 · Human Services+2 more — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $666,667 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $151,400 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $543,925 · Health+3 more — $5,500 · HealthTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $350,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $58,788 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$23,647,000Other$2,918,333Education$1,677,000Human Services$1,330,000Recreation & Sports$823,067Health$549,425Philanthropy$436,288

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFORMAN ARTS INITIATIVE INC — $20,877,500 over 4y, 92% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $2,461,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY — $995,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $825,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $666,667 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $543,925 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA — $250,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL — $240,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CAT COLLABORATIVE — $190,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $188,750 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $151,400 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetWOMENS WAY — $115,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetREVOLUTION SCHOOL — $100,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA — $66,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $58,788 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM — $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARENT-INFANT CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIMPACTPHL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART START INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAY CAT RELIEF FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCUREPSP INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Foun…The William Penn Foun…Future Standard Found…The Barra Foundation …Independence Foundati…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…United Way of Greater…The Neubauer Family F…The Thomas and Tracey…The Daniel B and Flor…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA40.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation

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 Forman Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 The Forman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Forman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 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.

Source object · view filing

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