· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM | $32,316 |
| CAMP DREAMCATCHER | $30,000 |
| EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANS EQUITY PROJECT | $30,000 |
| BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Acts of Generosity’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 56%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 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 SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTEGRATION AND MIGRANT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds COMPASS MARK ↗
- Who funds DAEMION COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEMUTH FOUNDATION ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acts of Generosity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acts of Generosity. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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