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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| INDEPENDENCE HISTORICALTRUST | $2,500 |
| MAUNA KEA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PYC MUSIC INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| WILLS EYE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| URSINUS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 71 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abele Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abele Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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