· Private foundation
The Lida Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILMA THEATER | $96,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC | $55,000 |
| OPERA PHILADELPHIA | $34,500 |
| MORRIS ARBORETUM OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA PA | $30,000 |
| BEARDED LADIES CABARET | $25,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA PHILADELPHIA BALLET | $25,000 |
| BALLETX | $25,000 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRINGEARTS | $25,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC4× · 2021–2024 · $273k · revenue +86%
- TWTHE WILMA THEATER5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +23%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA5× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- KCKIMMEL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +133%
- PYPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +74%
- SDSUNRISE DAY CAMP-GREATER PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
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…
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
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…
Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…
It is the mission of the f. m. kirby center to foster the development of the arts by promoting, producing, and causing to be produced theatrical productions, exhibits and other entertainment as deemed to have a benefical impact. continued…
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
Quantum theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Womens Way. 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 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 73 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 FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS WAY ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THEATRE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 440 INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds BEARDED LADIES CABARET ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYPENN INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds AZUKA THEATRE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS 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 Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · The University of the Arts · The Shubert Foundation Inc
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 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.
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.