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Albert W Bader Foundation Inc at a glance

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Albert W Bader Foundation Inc

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.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$230kYouth Development$128kRecreation & Sports$114kArts & Culture$113kHealth$95kHuman Services$45kReligion$36kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST CHARLES BORROMEO CYO$8,000
BENSALEM RAMBLERS LITTLE LEAGUE$7,000
FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK$5,000
THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION$5,000
BENSALEM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$5,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA$3,500
INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PGA REACH PHILADELPHIA$3,000
NAAAP$3,000
BENSALEM SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION$3,000
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA$2,500
MAYOR JOSEPH DIGIROLAMO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $1k → 7%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $1k → 7%BUCKS FOR KIDS: $2k → 6%BUCKS FOR KIDS: $1k → 6%BUCKS FOR KIDS: $1k → 6%BUCKS FOR KIDS: $1k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $2k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $2k → 6%AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$876k · 51 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
16

Total granted

$876k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    BENSALEM SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +54%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +106%
  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +990%

Funded once

  • CT
    CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PE
    PENNSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +150%
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
2
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
4
Land Trust of Bucks County

To function as a community-based land conservancy for the preservation of farmland and our agricultural heritages, as well as other open spaces, natural resources, wildlife habitats, and scenic features within bedminster township and other…

Environment
5
Bucks County Medical Society

The bucks county medical society strives to advance the professional and personal development of its physician members by providing educational and practice related resources as well as legislative advocacy. moreover, the bucks county…

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6
Berks Nature

Our vision is to be a cornerstone of excellence in the stewardship of the environment. clearly identified with our specific mission, we strive to meet the ever-changing needs of the county and to conserve its heritage and essential…

Environment
7
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
8
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
9
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
10
Pennsylvania Builders Association

Incorporated in 1945, the pennsylvania builders association is a nonprofit professional trade organization representing approximately 4,066 members from across the commonwealth. pba members include contractors, builders, and remodelers,…

—
11
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
12
Berks County Community Foundation Inc

To promote philanthropy and improve the quality of life for residents of berks county.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bensalem Rescue Squad Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bensalem Kiwanis Foundation: $76,000 · OtherBensalem Kiwanis FoundationST CHARLES BORROMEO CYO: $56,500 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO CYOBENSALEM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $42,500 · OtherBENSALEM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCBENSALEM SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATION: $38,000 · OtherBENSALEM SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATIONFOCUS BENSALEM INC: $31,000 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $30,500 · OtherBENSALEM RAMBLERS LITTLE LEAGUE: $29,500 · OtherINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST: $21,500 · Other+40 more: $310,515 · Other+40 moreFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF…BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $29,500 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUN…PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $9,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPH…SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsPGA REACH PHILADELPHIA: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA BOYS GYMNASTICS: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN: $22,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY: $10,000 · PhilanthropySUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyPENNSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $2,500 · PhilanthropyPOLAR BEAR RUN-WALK FOR AUTISM INC: $14,500 · HealthSAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO MATERNITY HOME: $12,500 · HealthBENSALEM RESCUE SQUAD INC: $7,500 · HealthLIBERTAE INCORPORATED: $7,500 · HealthTRANSPLANT HOUSE: $2,500 · HealthLIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBENSALEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $24,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND: $7,500 · Community ImprovementFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $16,000 · EnvironmentTINICUM CONSERVANCY: $9,000 · Environment
Other$636,015Arts & Culture$88,500Recreation & Sports$51,500Philanthropy$47,500Health$47,500Community Improvement$31,500Environment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBensalem Kiwanis Foundation: $76,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetBENSALEM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $42,500 over 9y, 22% of budgetBENSALEM SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATION: $38,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK INC: $38,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $30,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $29,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBENSALEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $24,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN: $22,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST: $21,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBENSALEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,015 over 2y, 12% of budgetBARC DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOLAR BEAR RUN-WALK FOR AUTISM INC: $14,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO MATERNITY HOME: $12,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUCKS COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTINICUM CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSAMS HOPE: $9,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPGA REACH PHILADELPHIA: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBENSALEM RESCUE SQUAD INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND: $7,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLIBERTAE INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BOYS GYMNASTICS: $6,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBUCKS FOR KIDS: $4,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKELLYS KIDS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPLANT HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSEPH V DIGIROLAMO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 75% of budgetPATH (PEOPLE ACTING TO HELP) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM CARES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNTY THEATER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION FIRE COMPANY 1: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornwells Fire Company No 1: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 Bensalem Kiwanis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BENSALEM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BENSALEM SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BENSALEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BENSALEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BARC DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds POLAR BEAR RUN-WALK FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO MATERNITY HOME ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUCKS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TINICUM CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SAMS HOPE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PGA REACH PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds BENSALEM RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTAE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC ↗

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.

Foundations Community…Penn Community Bank F…The Philadelphia Foun…Norman Raab FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…Morel Family Foundati…Bucks County Conferen…The Leo and Peggy Pie…Connelly FoundationThe Haley FoundationThe Pearl Family Foun…
Foundations Community PartnershipPA32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundations Community Partnership · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Norman Raab Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morel Family Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Haley Foundation · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albert W Bader Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert W Bader Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Albert W Bader Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Albert W Bader Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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