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25th Century Foundation

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.

$819k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$986kArts & Culture$645kHealth$615kEnvironment$450kPhilanthropy$330kHousing & Shelter$298kCivil Rights$289kAnimals$280kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $575k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIGHTY WRITERS$75,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
INGLIS HOUSE$75,000
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION$75,000
BYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION$50,000
YOUTHBUILD PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL$50,000
CITY YEAR INC$50,000
LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM$50,000
GREENE STREET FRIENDS SCHOOL$35,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
WHITE MEN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE$25,000
PENNSYLVANIA SPCA$25,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
PENNFUTURE$25,000
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 (FY18–25, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EASTERN PA TRANS EQUITY PROJECT: $5k → 11%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $50k → 6%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%ACCION COMUNAL LATINO AMERICANO: $5k → 7%NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA: $25k → 7%MAIN LINE DEPUTY DOG: $10k → 6%WHITE MEN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $25k → 6%JUNTOS: $6k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $45k → 22%RESOURCE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $32k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $25k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMENS NETWORK: $35k → 22%INGLIS HOUSE: $86k → 22%INGLIS HOUSE: $75k → 22%THE GARCES FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $5k → 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

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
DC
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of 25th Century Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

25th Century Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
85

Total granted

$1.1M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • WHYY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +36%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +53%
  • MIGHTY WRITERS
    2× · 2018–2022 · $80k · revenue +563%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -7%
  • CC
    COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SF
    STARFINDER FOUNDATION 12112023 JPM
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
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
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
2
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
3
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
4
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
5
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
6
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
7
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
8
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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9
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia

The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

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10
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
11
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry. 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

85 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. 85 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
44/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC: $110,000 · OtherCOBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND: $100,000 · Other+66 more: $2,611,813 · Other+66 moreAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVER…MIGHTY WRITERS: $80,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITER…ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: $75,000 · EducationACTING WITHOU…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF T…WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $50,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON CO…BYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationBYERSCHOOL FO…RUSSELL BYERS CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationRUSSELL BYERS…OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 · EducationOVERBROOK SCH…CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SC…THE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY: $34,350 · EducationTHE ALLIANCE …+2 more: $20,000 · EducationWHYY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCMUSICOPIA INC: $54,667 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA I…PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS FO…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHI…LiveConnectionsorg: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLiveConnect…PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHI…THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYL…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $40,325 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT …WOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMARIAN ANDERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT 440 INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINGLIS HOUSE: $161,300 · Human ServicesINGLIS HO…SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSURREY SE…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES T…CONNECTEDLY: $35,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTED…Resources for Human Development Inc: $31,970 · Human ServicesResources…White Men for Racial Justice Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesWhite Men…Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry: $25,000 · Human ServicesGermantow…NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW LEASH…+7 more: $41,000 · Human Services+7 moreTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $170,000 · PhilanthropyStarfinder Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNatural Lands Trust Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentGREENER PARTNERS: $50,000 · EnvironmentFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $35,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $25,000 · EnvironmentFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $53,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $50,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,821,813Education$624,350Arts & Culture$544,992Human Services$439,270Philanthropy$380,000Environment$260,000Health$208,500

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 budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINGLIS HOUSE: $161,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $86,400 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: $75,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $54,667 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $53,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $52,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetStarfinder Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRUSSELL BYERS CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiveConnectionsorg: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUniversity City Science Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $40,325 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $35,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY: $34,350 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc: $31,970 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL IMPACT CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $25,710 over 1y, 1.1% 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 Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Connelly FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…United Way of Greater…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Barra Foundation …Henrietta Tower Wurts…Claneil Foundation IncIndependence Foundati…The Patricia Kind Fam…W W Smith Charitable …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA68.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust

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 25th Century Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 25th Century Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • United Way of Delaware: 58% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Justice at Work Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to 25th Century Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 25th Century 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 124 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 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