· Private foundation
Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $27,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR AMI | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT | $12,025 |
| FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA JEWISH ARCHIVES CENTER | $7,000 |
| WOODMERE ART MUSEUM INC | $6,500 |
| FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC | $5,000 |
| LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA | $4,100 |
| NORWESTER THERAPY DOGS | $4,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,500 |
| BOCA RATON ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| HIAS HEBREW IMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $1,800 |
| PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -60% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- FCFRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT INC2× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +183%
- WAWOODMERE ART MUSEUM2× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +106%
- TLTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA2× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FLFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue -60%
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.
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
The mission of the friends council on education is to provide leadership in drawing friends schools together in unity of spirit and cooperative endeavors. the council's work nurtures the quaker life of schools, strengthens the network of…
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
The philadelphia cultural fund was established by the city of philadelphia to conduct grant making activity and provide assistance to local arts organizations.
To study, support, and promote circular economy principles and markets and to educate the public on the circular economy.
To maintain a club for social enjoyment
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Friends of the rail park was founded to cultivate visions, advocate for, and ultimately manage a continous three-mile linear park and recreation path in philadelphia.
Promoting scholarly and public understanding of history of science, technology and medicine.
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
Is a trustee of the francis cope house and grounds. city parks also provides financial support through the cope trust
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nor'wester Therapy Dogs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center ↗
- Who funds NOR'WESTER THERAPY DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Performing Arts Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Acey and Bill Wolgin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.