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Applestone Foundation-Ima

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.

$352k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$714kHuman Services$232kYouth Development$132kHealth$126kEnvironment$101kFood & Nutrition$85kHousing & Shelter$63kCivil Rights$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $303k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRVILLE FRIENDS SCHOOL$25,000
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSUITY$22,650
UNIONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$21,000
KENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT$21,000
LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA$20,000
KENNETT AFTER SCHOOL ASSN AFTER THE BELL$18,750
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY$18,000
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES$16,800
PARKESBURG POINT$15,000
CHELSEAS FUND$15,000
BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE$15,000
ONE22$15,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY$10,000
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $5k → 10%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 6%ONE22: $17k → 5%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 6%ONE22: $15k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $10k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $10k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $5k → 6%SURREY SERVICES: $10k → 6%ONE22: $5k → 5%YOUNG MOMS: $10k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $10k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $30k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $29k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $20k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNT: $19k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $18k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $16k → 6%KENNETT AREA YMCA: $10k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNT: $10k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNT: $8k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNT: $8k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $7k → 6%KENNETT AREA YMCA: $3k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
NY
WY
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
WV
DE
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

$1.4M
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +1%
  • LH
    LCH Health and Community Services
    5× · 2021–2025 · $96k · revenue +98%
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +8%
  • TG
    THE GARAGE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
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
8
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
9
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
10
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Local Food System Organizat…Senior Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr17%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr17%32%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,122

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRIC — $105,000 · OtherKENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICUNIONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL — $105,000 · OtherUNIONVILLE HIGH SCHOOLKENNETT AFTER SCHOOL ASSN AFTER THE BELL — $70,250 · OtherKENNETT AFTER SCHOOL ASSN AFTER THE BELLFAIRVILLE FRIENDS SCHOOL INC — $67,000 · OtherFAIRVILLE FRIENDS SCHOOL INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC — $36,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INCBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSUITY — $22,650 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $28,500 · Other+22 more — $181,659 · Other+22 moreTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC — $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER …EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC — $71,500 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF …THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $35,500 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & Y…LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $27,226 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGELYCOMING COLLEGE — $21,352 · EducationLYCOMING COLLEGETHE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY — $17,500 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $19,000 · EducationLCH Health and Community Services — $95,600 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Communit…KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $67,100 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY …FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $44,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH…One22 Inc — $37,000 · Human ServicesOne22 IncYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $33,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYW…YOUNGMOMS — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMSSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY…SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARKESBURG POINT — $74,000 · Youth DevelopmentFirst State Squash Inc — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE — $12,200 · Youth DevelopmentBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE — $70,500 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $20,000 · EnvironmentAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $65,000 · Food & NutritionCHELSEA'S FUND — $46,000 · Civil Rights
Other$616,059Education$357,078Human Services$336,700Youth Development$113,700Environment$100,500Food & Nutrition$65,000Civil Rights$46,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services — $95,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PARKESBURG POINT — $74,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC — $71,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE — $70,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $67,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAIRVILLE FRIENDS SCHOOL INC — $67,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHELSEA'S FUND — $46,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $44,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetOne22 Inc — $37,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $35,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst State Squash Inc — $27,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $27,226 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE — $21,352 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGMOMS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSLOW FOOD IN THE TETONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTERJH — $19,400 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE — $12,200 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE MEMORY PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Chester County Commun…United Way of Chester…The Philadelphia Foun…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Dansko Foundation…The Gordon Charter Fo…Connelly FoundationBlue Yak FoundationCabot-Kjellerup Found…The Fund for Women an…W W Smith Charitable …Claneil Foundation Inc
Chester County Community FoundationPA36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Blue Yak Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Claneil Foundation 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 Applestone Foundation-Ima 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Applestone Foundation-Ima?

Find your warmest path to Applestone Foundation-Ima 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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