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The Honickman 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.

$832k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$815kHousing & Shelter$763kFood & Nutrition$457kCivil Rights$226kEducation$184kHealth$181kHuman Services$94kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $553k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT HOME$180,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA$175,000
JEFFERSON$123,350
BARNES FOUNDATION$75,000
TILT - INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY IMAGE$35,500
WEITZMAN NATL MUSEUM OF AMER JEWISH HISTORY$25,000
MANNA$20,500
PENN MEMORY CENTER$15,000
FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILA$15,000
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW$12,000
PHILA MUSEUM OF ART$11,500
CONGREGATION BETH SOLOMON$10,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$10,000
AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE$10,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$6,000
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 (FY19–24, $778k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $100 → 12%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $500 → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%READ GLOBAL: $500 → 10%PLACE OF HOPE: $250 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $150 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $500 → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $3k → 7%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $500 → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $500 → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $300 → 6%MITZVAH CIRCLE: $1k → 7%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $100 → 6%MITZVAH CIRCLE: $1k → 7%DRUELING CENTER: $500 → 22%DRUEDING CENTER: $500 → 22%DRUEDING CENTER: $250 → 22%CHILDREN'S GLOBAL HEALTH FUND: $3k → 17%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CTR: $500 → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CTR: $500 → 22%ASSOCIATED SVS FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 22%ASSOCIATED SVS FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $338k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $180k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $72k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $72k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $47k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $28k → 22%PROJECT HOME-GC: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $1k → 22%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $500 → 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

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MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
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TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 197 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

197 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 145 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

197
127

Total granted

$3.9M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+42%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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

  • PH
    PROJECT HOME
    6× · 2019–2024 · $752k · revenue +13%
  • MA
    METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $406k · revenue +15%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMER JEWISH HIST
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • PM
    PENN MEMORY CENTER- UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SO
    SISTERS OF MERCY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
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
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund. 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

178 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. 178 of the 342 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/178
Grantees still filing
136/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA: $550,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILAJEWISH FEDERATION OF GR PHILA: $137,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GR PHILAJEFFERSON: $123,350 · OtherJEFFERSONTILT - INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $94,000 · OtherWORLD POETRY INC: $77,000 · Other+132 more: $943,838 · Other+132 moreTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $265,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATIONTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $251,000 · Arts & CultureTILT INSTITUTE FOR TH…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $99,750 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM O…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $85,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUS…+16 more: $110,150 · Arts & Culture+16 morePROJECT HOME: $751,700 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME+9 more: $25,650 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $405,850 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITA…SHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $18,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $6,100 · Food & NutritionCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA: $132,500 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $66,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $4,000 · Civil RightsAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $40,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $22,500 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $5,670 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,200 · EducationMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $5,000 · EducationOrot: $4,000 · Education+6 more: $9,450 · EducationTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · HealthMichael P Donatucci Foundation Inc: $19,840 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $6,000 · HealthCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $3,000 · Health+9 more: $13,000 · Health
Other$1,925,688Arts & Culture$810,900Human Services$777,350Food & Nutrition$430,450Civil Rights$202,500Education$91,820Health$84,340

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPROJECT HOME: $751,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $405,850 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $251,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA: $132,500 over 6y, 42% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $99,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD POETRY INC: $77,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $66,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMichael P Donatucci Foundation Inc: $19,840 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $16,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $14,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUE OF THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ART: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELADIES HARBOR ORGANIZATION: $6,803 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $5,670 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $5,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRINGEARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMUEL D COZEN MEMORIAL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOrot: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $3,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE ↗
  • Who funds CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD POETRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Michael P Donatucci Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗

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 Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…The Saramar Charitabl…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Snider FoundationIndependence Foundati…The Philadelphia Cult…United Way of Greater…The Barra Foundation …Future Standard Found…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA55.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Snider Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Barra Foundation Inc · Future Standard 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 Honickman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Honickman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
33report 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
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.
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How do I get to The Honickman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Honickman 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 342 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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