· Private foundation
Anton Charitable Trust
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 |
|---|---|
| FRINGEARTS | $25,000 |
| 1812 PRODUCTIONS | $20,000 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ARDEN THEATER COMPANY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 99% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- FLFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue -60%
- ATARDEN THEATRE COMPANY6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +29%
- FFRINGEARTS6× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue -34%
Funded once
- PCPHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TETHEATRE EXILE COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +25%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +45%
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 promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
Theatre philadelphia is a leadership organization that celebrates and promotes professional theatre in the greater philadelphia region, primarily via the barrymore awards for excellence in theatre.
To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
It is the mission of the f. m. kirby center to foster the development of the arts by promoting, producing, and causing to be produced theatrical productions, exhibits and other entertainment as deemed to have a benefical impact. continued…
Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…
To be an advocate for dance in philadelphia by presenting stimulating performances, workshops, classes, dialogs and forums for artists, aspiring artists, students, and a broad-based audience.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…
The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…
Quantum theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Theatre Exile Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
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 Lida Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Anton Charitable Trust 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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