· Private foundation
Aster Foundation Of Philadelphia
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA | $2,500 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA | $2,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $2,000 |
| HOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT | $1,500 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $1,000 |
| THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| WEST KENSINGTON MINISTRIES | $300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $250 |
| LANTERN THEATER | $250 |
| THE AUGUSTANA FUND | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HAHOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +10%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +43%
- PFPHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- HFHIAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -39%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +8%- TJTHE JOSHUA PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
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.
JJPI is a specialized organization that provides prevention and treatment services in the areas of sexual and interpersonal violence, post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of trauma, infant and early childhood mental health, and…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa and the most unlike its peers is The Attic Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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.
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- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds 1IN6 INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RENEW THEATERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Aster Foundation Of Philadelphia 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.