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Amj Foundation at a glance

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Amj 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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$50kArts & Culture$42kHuman Services$38kReligion$37kCivil Rights$32kFood & Nutrition$20kCrime & Legal$15kHealth$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$350
Median grant
1
States reached
$421k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN FIRST PA$6,000
COLLECTIVE POWER$5,500
THE SANCTUARY COLLECTIVE$5,000
THE SHALOM CENTER$5,000
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE$5,000
WHYY-FM$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
BREAD AND ROSES COMMUNITY FUND$2,000
WOMEN'S WAY$1,625
JUVENILE LAW CENTER$1,500
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$1,000
AGEWELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE$1,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE$1,000
WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $6k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $6k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $6k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $6k → 22%WOMENS MEDICAL FUND: $2k → 22%WOMENS MEDICAL FUND: $2k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $2k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $2k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $2k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $1k → 22%CONNECTEDLY: $750 → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $250 → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $250 → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 22%FACE TO FACE: $250 → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $250 → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 22%FACE TO FACE: $250 → 22%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 64 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
45

Total granted

$273k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+17%

Still filing today

36%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SC
    Shalom Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +16%
  • CF
    Children First PA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +33%
  • THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • MC
    METROPOLITAN CHRISTIAN COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • AF
    ACLU-PA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • LB
    LEADER BREEDERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
3
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc

Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.

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5
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
7
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
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
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
11
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
12
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

We lead, strengthen, and amplify the voices of greater philadelphia's cultural community.

Arts & Culture
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 Historic Germantown Llc. 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

41 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. 41 of the 132 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $21,250 · OtherHAMPSHIRE COLLEGEWHYY-FM: $16,000 · OtherWHYY-FMIndividual grant recipient: $15,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLLECTIVE POWER: $13,500 · OtherCOLLECTIVE POWERTHE SCHOOLHOUSE: $11,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOLHOUSETRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $10,100 · OtherBread and Roses Community Fund: $9,500 · OtherPCCY: $9,200 · OtherWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $7,700 · Other+101 more: $81,745 · Other+101 moreChildren First PA: $24,000 · Human ServicesChildren First…WOMENS WAY: $7,950 · Human ServicesWOMENS WAYABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $6,100 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBER…Children's Village Inc: $1,500 · Human Services+3 more: $1,750 · Human ServicesShalom Center: $29,300 · ReligionShalom Cen…WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $19,125 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $11,300 · Crime & LegalJUVENILE LAW CENTER: $1,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $450 · Crime & LegalTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $9,250 · EnvironmentARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $790 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$195,595Human Services$41,300Religion$29,300Youth Development$19,875Crime & Legal$13,250Environment$9,250Arts & Culture$8,640

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShalom Center: $29,300 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetChildren First PA: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $19,125 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $11,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBread and Roses Community Fund: $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $9,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS WAY: $7,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $7,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $6,100 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Village Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST MT AIRY NEIGHBORS INC: $1,425 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSMATTERS: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC GERMANTOWN LLC: $800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $790 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE WORKSHOP AND ARCHIVES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXIENTE: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMT AIRY COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Shalom Center ↗
  • Who funds Children First PA ↗
  • Who funds WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS WAY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WEST MT AIRY NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINTESSENCE THEATRE 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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…United Way of Greater…The Nararo FoundationHenrietta Tower Wurts…Claneil Foundation IncThe Philadelphia Cult…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Lida FoundationIndependence Public M…
The William Penn FoundationPA50.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Nararo Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Lida Foundation · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia 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 Amj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 132 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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