· Private foundation
The Robert J Kahn Lifetime Charitable Foundation C/O Murry L Blackman
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $3,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA LAW SCHOOL FUND | $3,000 |
| COMMITTEE OF 70 | $2,500 |
| VISITATION ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| GLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| LARCHMONT TEMPLE | $2,500 |
| A BETTER CHANCE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MISSION KIDS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LOWER MERION POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| BRANDYWINE VALLEY (SPCA) | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +123%- GFGLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +28%
- PAPHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- MHMERION HALL METHODIST CEMETARYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ASABRAMSON SENIOR CAREone grant, 2019 · $4k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…
Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…
The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.
The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) protects animals from cruelty and abuse, rescues and rehabilitates neglected, abandoned and unwanted animals, and promotes animal welfare throughout Pennsylvania.…
we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.
To reduce gun violence in philadelphia
The organization serves, represents, and supports veterans, troops, their familes, and communities.
The organization's non-partisan mission is to increase voter turnout and participation in local elections.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY ↗
- Who funds GLADWYNE FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HERB-IT-FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLADWYNE POST VFW 6956 ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert J Kahn Lifetime Charitable Foundation C/O Murry L Blackman funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert J Kahn Lifetime Charitable Foundation C/O Murry L Blackman. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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