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Austelle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK | $55,000 |
| PA ASSN OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE | $55,000 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $55,000 |
| NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER | $50,000 |
| LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| VETERANS MULTI SERVICE CENTER | $30,000 |
| SAINT JAMES SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS | $10,000 |
| GREEN AMENDMENT FOR THE GENERATIONS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- NSNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +151%
- LMLOWER MERION CONSERVANCY7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +7%
- CFCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HHHAVEN HOUSE OF PHILAone grant, 2022 · $15k
- HIHIAS INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +18%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
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…
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.
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…
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
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…
Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.
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…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lower Merion Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMENDMENTS FOR THE GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAIR FOOD ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIMS SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA 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 William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Hess Foundation Inc · Independence Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Austelle Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.
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