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Abele Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
82% of Abele Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Abele Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URSINUS COLLEGE | $910,380 |
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| FOUNDING FORWARD | $300,000 |
| CHEWONKI FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| PENN STATE | $14,010 |
| FREDS FOOTSTEPS | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $5,000 |
| GIRARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MAUNA KEA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| INDEPENDENCE HISTORICALTRUST | $2,500 |
| PYC MUSIC INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| WILLS EYE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| URSINUS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UCURSINUS COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +20%
- CFChewonki Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
- FFFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION)5× · 2021–2025 · $979k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- AEAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.4M
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF THE UNIONone grant, 2018 · $268k
- CCChester County Family Academy Incone grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedoms Foundation At Valley Forge and the most unlike its peers is Legacy Foundation. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 71 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 URSINUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds LUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REVOLUTION SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chester County Family Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Foundation for Individual Liberty · Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Wh & Althea F Remmel Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Bergman 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 Abele Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Alice Paul Institute Inc — 43% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
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.
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