How much did THE LIDA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$881kEnvironment$273kPhilanthropy$247kHuman Services$121kCivil Rights$40kFood & Nutrition$15kEducation$9kCommunity Improvement$7kYouth Development$6kOther$1.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

librarychestnut hill

2021

librarychestnut hill

2022

chestnut hilllibrary

2023

chestnut hillplanned parenthoodlibrary

2024

audienceseducationcivicdedicateddiverseinspiresexperience

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $30k
$10k–50k14 grants · $295k
$50k–250k2 grants · $152k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

WILMA THEATER$96,500
FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC$55,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$34,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA PA$30,000
MORRIS ARBORETUM OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$25,000
BEARDED LADIES CABARET$25,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA PHILADELPHIA BALLET$25,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
FRINGEARTS$25,000
BALLETX$25,000
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
BARNES FOUNDATION$10,000
WOMENS WAY$10,000
PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY$10,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.4M · 54 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+52%

Still filing today

67%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

FO
FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $273k · revenue +83%
WT
WILMA THEATER
5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +27%
AC
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +118%

Funded once

PB
PENNSYLVANIA BALLET
one grant, 2020 · $30k
KC
KIMMEL CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +43%
PM
PYO MUSIC INSTITUTE
one grant, 2021 · $6k

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.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music.

Arts & Culture

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

The Philadelphia Award

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The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

The athenaeum of philadelphia nurtures curiosity in members and neighbors, strengthening community through learning, discourse and meaningful engagement. the athenaeum is a historic and vibrant philadelphia-centered and member-supported…

Education

Pittsburgh Opera Inc

To produce a range of artistic and educational programs to engage and enrich the community.

Arts & Culture

Pittsburgh Public Theater

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture

Association for Public Art

To commission, interpret, promote and preserve public art in philadelphia."

Arts & Culture

Allentown Public Theatre

Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.

Arts & Culture

Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture

Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture

The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world class performances

Arts & Culture

Quantum Theatre Inc

Quantum theatre creates adventurous, environmental productions of plays all over the city of pittsburgh. original works, contemporary international plays, or updated classics are brought intimately close in settings like groves of trees,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Fringearts. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/50

the rest of the field

14%

1,344/9,546

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

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

36/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,051,550Arts & Culture$881,150Environment$272,500Philanthropy$247,300Human Services$121,000Civil Rights$40,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

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.

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 William Penn FoundationPA71.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The University of the Arts · The Sylvia W and Randle M Kauders · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley · Victory 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 organisation THE LIDA 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +83% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 236251649 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Lida Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lida Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LIDA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lida Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE LIDA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lida Foundation?

More from the funding graph