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The Neubauer Family Foundation at a glance

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The Neubauer Family 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.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
199
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$5.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$45MArts & Culture$16MPhilanthropy$11MScience & Tech$2.4MEmployment$1.6MYouth Development$1.3MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 199 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k113 grants · $300k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+14 grants · $14M
$5,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$361M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$5,610,714
PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS$2,262,625
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,230,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$1,050,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC$561,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$555,000
WHYY$510,820
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT$427,500
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$375,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$346,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$300,000
THE BARNES FOUNDATION$300,000
PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES$272,012
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$255,140
PROJECT HOME$220,300
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $805k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $20k → 22%YO DIGO NO MAS INC: $10k → 9%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $300 → 10%KAVOD: $18k → 12%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $5k → 22%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $5k → 22%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $5k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $5k → 7%READ GLOBAL: $820 → 10%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $5k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $3k → 7%JCHAI - JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%JCHAI - JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%JCHAI - JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%JCHAI - JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $102k → 22%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELI: $18k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELI: $18k → 7%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $3k → 17%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $50k → 22%VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $50k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $8k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $8k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $150 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $220k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $126k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $6k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $400 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $8k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $9k → 22%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $10k → 22%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $10k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $460 → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FAIRNESS PROJECT: $25k → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FAIRNESS PROJECT: $4k → 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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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66M · 208 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

208 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 68 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208
224

Total granted

$66M
$9.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2021–2024 · $26M · revenue +34%
  • PA
    PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +76% · 51% of their budget
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NF
    Neubauer Family Charitable Trust
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -83%
  • CP
    CALDER PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -29%
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
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
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
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
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The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

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
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in School Innovation; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

324 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 324 of the 514 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)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
319/324
Grantees still filing
202/324
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $25,558,264 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoPHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC: $4,300,867 · EducationPHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INCTrustees of Tufts College: $3,618,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,225,663 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YOR…+32 more: $6,036,712 · Education+32 moreMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $5,678,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERABARNES FOUNDATION: $4,085,418 · OtherBARNES FOUNDATIONCALDER PROJECT: $1,000,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $750,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $855,844 · Other+111 more: $8,768,963 · Other+111 moreTRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS: $1,856,807 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES O…WHYY INC: $1,532,720 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,225,100 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPH…LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $825,000 · Arts & CultureLV PUBLIC …THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $425,518 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES…New York Historical Society: $305,625 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $266,700 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $1,006,660 · Arts & Culture+19 moreNeubauer Family Charitable Trust: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $850,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $350,740 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,909,726 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $1,059,333 · InternationalGlobal Impact: $125,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $118,750 · International+5 more: $218,400 · InternationalIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION: $1,362,155 · EmploymentYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT: $924,144 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $100,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $64,500 · Youth Development
Education$42,739,506Other$21,138,225Arts & Culture$7,444,130Philanthropy$6,200,740International$3,431,209Employment$1,362,155Youth Development$1,088,644

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $25,558,264 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNeubauer Family Charitable Trust: $5,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC: $4,300,867 over 4y, 51% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $3,618,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,225,663 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,909,726 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS: $1,856,807 over 2y, 63% of budgetWHYY INC: $1,532,720 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION: $1,362,155 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,290,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,225,100 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $1,059,333 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT: $924,144 over 4y, 16% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $855,844 over 4y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $850,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $836,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $825,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $750,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC: $705,911 over 3y, 14% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $660,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $425,518 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026: $400,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $360,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $352,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $305,625 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $293,742 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $266,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $252,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $249,040 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $205,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $195,433 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $183,240 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $175,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $166,668 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $159,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAmerica Votes: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $137,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Impact: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $118,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $118,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $115,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC: $115,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetPhilabundance: $110,300 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

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…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…United Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationThe Barra Foundation …Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Neubauer Family Chari…Independence Foundati…Hamilton Family Found…Anderson Family Found…The Patricia Kind Fam…
The William Penn FoundationPA98.9× affinity63 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 · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Neubauer Family Charitable Trust · Independence Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family 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 Neubauer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Neubauer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
49report 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.

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 514 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home