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The Robert and Phyllis Topchik 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.

$207k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$157k33%
FY202312$18k25%
FY202213$19k15%
FY202119$32k68%
FY202011$35kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$109kArts & Culture$85kEducation$75kReligion$29kHealth$19kCivil Rights$4kAnimals$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $34,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAdler Aphasia Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617: $6,150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTaconic Music Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetManchester Rescue Squad Inc Dba Northshire Rescue Squad: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Interest Research Group Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBennington County Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Cupboard Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiami City Ballet Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManchester Music Festival Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Smiles Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Vermont Community FoundationVT15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation

How much does The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation give?
The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $206,895 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Arts & Culture (23%), Education (20%).
Who are The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($70k), Barrington Stage Company Inc ($34k), Paper Mill Playhouse ($16k).
Does The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation based?
The Robert and Phyllis Topchik Family Foundation is based in VT.

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 37 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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