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The Kopelman 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of The Kopelman Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Philadelphia Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Kopelman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $370k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LENFEST INSTITURE FOR JURNALISM | $100,000 |
| CODED BY KIDS | $90,000 |
| CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BLACK AND BROWN FOUNDERS | $20,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| WE THEPROTESTERS | $20,000 |
| THE BAIL PROJECT | $20,000 |
| BLACK GIRLS CODE | $10,000 |
| VENTURE FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JURNALISM | $5,000 |
| CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 15 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC3× · 2018–2021 · $238k · revenue +23%
- CBCODED BY3× · 2017–2020 · $170k · revenue +765%
- SESHARING EXCESS2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +694%
Funded once
- RARAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +56%
- EIEYOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue ×12
- MCMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -31%
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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…
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.
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
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…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vetri Foundation for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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. 42 of the 66 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CODED BY ↗
- Who funds MATTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EYOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE THE PROTESTERS 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 William Penn Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sidney and Sandy Brown Foundation Inc · The Forman Family Foundation · The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc · Future Standard Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family 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 Kopelman 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.
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.