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The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation at a glance

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The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$330kEnvironment$263kArts & Culture$122kHealth$109kReligion$104kInternational$77kFood & Nutrition$52kCivil Rights$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$45,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$15,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
TREE OF LIFE$9,000
SQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER$7,200
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$5,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA$4,712
UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$4,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$3,000
UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER$3,000
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER -CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $200 → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%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

AK
VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 46%.

The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$974k · 40 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
51

Total granted

$974k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

85%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +54%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +13%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • TW
    The Working Group
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • NI
    NOT IN OUR TOWN
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

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…

Human Services
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
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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6
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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9
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
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to develop and accelerate access to breakthrough cancer therapies, curating innovation from discovery to patient access.

Health
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 108 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
55/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $404,630 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTREE OF LIFE INC: $70,000 · OtherTREE OF LIFE INCCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $37,338 · Other+56 more: $196,714 · Other+56 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $293,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER …Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way…+7 more: $35,020 · Philanthropy+7 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $32,000 · HealthSQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER: $22,200 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $13,900 · HealthSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $8,500 · HealthNAMI National: $6,500 · HealthMOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 · Health+10 more: $15,763 · HealthWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $30,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $24,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $45,227 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $16,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureQUANTUM THEATRE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $14,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $6,500 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $5,208 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$758,682Philanthropy$378,520Health$112,863International$79,000Food & Nutrition$60,227Arts & Culture$43,500Education$35,208

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $293,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $45,227 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $37,338 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER: $22,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $13,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Working Group: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $8,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360: $7,560 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL: $5,214 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $5,208 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $4,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 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.

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 Fine FoundationHillman Family Founda…Giant Eagle FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…Staunton Farm Foundat…The Grable FoundationJewish Federation of …Richard King Mellon F…The Philip Chosky Cha…David S Shapira Found…John Pritzker Family …Eden Hall Foundation
The Fine FoundationPA38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fine Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Eden Hall 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 Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report 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.
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How do I get to The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sheila Reicher Fine 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$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