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The Presser Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
486
Grants FY2025still arriving
46
States reached
$186k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$20MEducation$10.0MYouth Development$333kHuman Services$313kHealth$221kRecreation & Sports$34kCommunity Improvement$29kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 486 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k391 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k85 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $961k
$3,000
Median grant
46
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$185,720
THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$150,000
WRTI901FM$125,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS)$100,000
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS)$75,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE$75,000
ARTPHILLY$50,000
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA MUSIC INSTITUTE$50,000
CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$50,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$40,000
ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS$40,000
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION$40,000
THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$40,000
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL$40,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE: $75k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 11%EASTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 6%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $75k → 11%COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL LEHIGH VALLEY: $75k → 11%WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $75k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $125k → 10%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 18%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 11%ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER: $75k → 11%WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $75k → 22%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%RIDER UNIVERSITY - WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE: $95k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 22%WRTI901FM: $125k → 22%VARIOUS: $181k → 22%VARIOUS: $162k → 22%VARIOUS: $161k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $125k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $125k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $100k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $70k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $125k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $100k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $150k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $75k → 22%SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL: $75k → 22%LIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $100k → 22%LIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $100k → 22%LIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $100k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $200k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $100k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS): $100k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $90k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS): $75k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 417 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

417 repeat relationships — 298 still active in FY2025, 119 since wound down; 126 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

417
67

Total granted

$30M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+0%

Still filing today

56%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MC
    MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +245%
  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $665k · revenue +75%
  • PC
    Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
    9× · 2017–2025 · $653k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • ST
    STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • EU
    EASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • TM
    THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Wilson College

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

Education
3
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
4
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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Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
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Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
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Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
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Manhattanville University

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

Education
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Albright College

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

Education
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Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawrence University of Wisconsin and the most unlike its peers is Mosaic Youth Chorus. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Development ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Community Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
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 54 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr17%49%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr17%54%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%5/399
the rest of the field
9%
7,125/77,763

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.

04the grantee network

351 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. 351 of the 614 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
344/351
Grantees still filing
208/351
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,211,250 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSKIMMEL CENTER INC — $665,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INCPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society — $652,500 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Chamber Music SocietyTHE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC — $625,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $540,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $490,500 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $469,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $450,250 · Arts & Culture+53 more — $6,926,660 · Arts & Culture+53 moreVARIOUS — $1,464,606 · OtherVARIOUSLIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE — $420,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $315,500 · Other+73 more — $6,413,135 · Other+73 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $331,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF …Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $325,000 · EducationTemple University …RIDER UNIVERSITY — $284,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYTHE CROSSING INC — $279,500 · EducationTHE CROSSING INCSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $231,500 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGE+53 more — $2,770,250 · Education+53 moreASTRAL ARTISTS INC — $250,500 · EmploymentBEYOND THE BARS INC — $97,250 · Crime & LegalTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $97,000 · PhilanthropyArtistas y Musicos Latino Americanos — $41,000 · HealthNorthwestern University — $34,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$12,030,660Other$8,613,741Education$4,221,250Employment$250,500Crime & Legal$97,250Philanthropy$97,000Health$41,000Recreation & Sports$34,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,211,250 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC — $665,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society — $652,500 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC — $625,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $540,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $490,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $469,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $450,250 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS — $359,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $345,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $331,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $325,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPERADELAWARE INC — $317,685 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $315,500 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $284,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC — $279,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $277,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM — $267,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSYMPHONY IN C — $252,500 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC — $250,500 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA — $235,000 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $231,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED — $230,250 over 9y, 21% of budgetTHE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $226,000 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $217,500 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSINGING CITY INC — $217,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetNETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC — $211,500 over 9y, 18% of budgetMENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA — $200,000 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetHISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP — $200,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD — $199,500 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetTEMPESTA DI MARE INC — $198,250 over 9y, 10% of budgetPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND — $194,250 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetTHE STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC — $192,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC — $185,750 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc — $185,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $175,500 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $173,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc — $170,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc — $155,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $139,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $134,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $124,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $124,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $124,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $121,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $111,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budget
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 MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds OPERADELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSING INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY IN C ↗
  • Who funds ASTRAL ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SINGING CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD ↗
  • Who funds TEMPESTA DI MARE 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.

The Philadelphia Cult…The William Penn Foun…The University of the…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Musical Fund Society …The Philadelphia Foun…National Collegiate A…Arthur Judson Foundat…The Barra Foundation …Mid Atlantic Arts IncD'Addario Foundation …Connelly Foundation
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund IncPA99.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The University of the Arts · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Arthur Judson Foundation Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Connelly 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 Presser 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • Wilmington Children's Chorus — 16% of income from government
  • Grand Opera House Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Operadelaware Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Westrick Music Academy Inc — 10% of income from government
  • The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa — 2% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Capital Harmony Works Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rider University — 1% of income from government
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College — 0% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
57report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Presser Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Presser Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 614 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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