· Private foundation
Acts of Generosity
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM | $32,316 |
| CAMP DREAMCATCHER | $30,000 |
| EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANS EQUITY PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $18,000 |
| KESHER ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $18,000 |
| SAFE BERKS | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR INTEGRATION AND MIGRANT SUPPORT | $15,000 |
| YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION | $13,575 |
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 (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Acts of Generosity’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $137k
- KIKESHER ISRAEL CONGREGATION8× · 2017–2024 · $137k
- TYTHE YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $69k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- EPEPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $46k · revenue +25%
- LLLANCASTERS LGBTQ COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $45k
- ADALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +76%
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.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
Support the arts locally through local cultural experiences
Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Provide support and education for people with mental health conditions and their families.
Navigating the journey to healing for all affected by sexual, relational, and family trauma.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alianzas De Phoenixville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 THE YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
- Who funds Chester County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTEGRATION AND MIGRANT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds COMPASS MARK ↗
- Who funds DAEMION COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEMUTH 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Acts of Generosity 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.
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