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The Lida Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lida Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$476k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEnvironment$273kPhilanthropy$255kHealth$171kEducation$162kHuman Services$96kCivil Rights$40kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA PHILADELPHIA BALLET$25,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$25,000
FRINGEARTS$25,000
BEARDED LADIES CABARET$25,000
BALLETX$25,000
WOMENS WAY$10,000
PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY$10,000
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
BARNES FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $10k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $20k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $20k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $20k → 22%WOMENS WAY: $10k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $8k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $8k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $5k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 50 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
16

Total granted

$2.2M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $273k · revenue +86%
  • TW
    THE WILMA THEATER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +23%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +133%
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +74%
  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -12%
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
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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2
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

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)

Arts & Culture
3
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Artphilly

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…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Contemporary

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…

Human Services
8
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
9
Profile Theatre Project

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Fm Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Association for Public Art

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Quantum Theatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
44/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILMA THEATER: $214,150 · Arts & CultureTHE WILMA THEATEROPERA PHILADELPHIA: $141,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $135,700 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATIONBALLETX: $115,000 · Arts & CultureBALLETXFRINGEARTS: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFRINGEARTSPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY: $50,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $383,000 · Arts & Culture+25 moreIndividual grant recipient: $99,000 · OtherIndividual gran…PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $35,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YO…INTERACT THEATRE COMPANY: $27,000 · OtherINTERACT THEATR…WRTI TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC RADIO: $20,000 · OtherWRTI TEMPLE UNI…WHYY 91FM: $20,000 · OtherWHYY 91FMFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $40,000 · OtherWOMEN'S LAW PRO…WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $25,000 · OtherWEAVERS WAY COM…Philabundance: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $70,900 · Other+13 moreTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $272,500 · EnvironmentTHE FRIENDS…ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMM…THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILAD…UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…+2 more: $2,300 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $166,200 · Health+1 more: $150 · HealthTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $123,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $26,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $7,500 · EducationLYRIC FEST: $6,000 · Education+2 more: $1,600 · EducationWOMENS WAY: $80,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $20,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,289,850Other$366,900Environment$272,500Philanthropy$247,300Health$166,350Education$164,600Human Services$121,000

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 budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $272,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER: $214,150 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $166,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $141,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $135,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $123,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLETX: $115,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWOMENS WAY: $80,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRINGEARTS: $70,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY: $50,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE HORIZON INC: $37,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $35,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT 440 INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $32,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $26,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $25,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetBEARDED LADIES CABARET: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $22,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $20,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYPENN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAZUKA THEATRE COLLECTIVE: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $14,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budget1812 PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLANTERN THEATER COMPANY: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBread and Roses Community Fund: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget11TH HOUR THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetGUNNAR MONTANA PRODUCTIONS: $10,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of the Chestnut Hill Library: $10,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetJOURNEY ARTS: $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY FUND: $6,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 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 WOMENS WAY ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE HORIZON INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 440 INC ↗
  • 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 ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds PLAYPENN INC ↗
  • Who funds AZUKA THEATRE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS 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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…Wyncote FoundationThe Philadelphia Cult…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Barra Foundation …The Cigna Group Found…The University of the…The Shubert Foundatio…
The William Penn FoundationPA76.3× affinity37 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 · 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

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 Lida Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lida Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 73 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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