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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.

$397k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$770kEnvironment$623kFood & Nutrition$290kEducation$256kCommunity Improvement$160kReligion$135kCrime & Legal$110kHealth$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $265k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PA ASSN OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE$55,000
WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY$55,000
DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $5k → 22%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $5k → 22%INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $51k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICES CENTER: $15k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
MD
DE
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 20 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$2.3M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-9%

Still filing today

60%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • LM
    LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +7%
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +5%
  • WHYY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -9%
  • HH
    HAVEN HOUSE OF PHILA
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
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
2
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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3
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
4
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
5
Philabundance

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
8
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
9
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
10
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
11
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
12
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KARAMAH: $455,000 · OtherKARAMAHPA ASSN OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $270,425 · OtherPA ASSN OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUREDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $262,500 · OtherDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORKPHILA VETERANS MULTI SVC EDUC CTR: $153,500 · OtherPHILA VETERANS MULTI SVC EDUC CTRHIAS PENNSYLVANIA: $115,186 · OtherHIAS PENNSYLVANIACOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC: $109,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SVCS OF DE VALLEY: $72,000 · Other+27 more: $329,783 · Other+27 moreNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $225,754 · Human ServicesNATIONALIT…WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOWER MERION CONSERVANCY: $185,350 · Arts & CultureLOWER MER…WHYY INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $150,050 · EnvironmentGREEN AMENDMENTS FOR THE GENERATIONS: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE DECENCY FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Community ImprovementLIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $30,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,767,394Human Services$240,754Arts & Culture$212,350Environment$170,050Community Improvement$95,000Health$55,000Public Benefit$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $262,500 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $225,754 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLOWER MERION CONSERVANCY: $185,350 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $150,050 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC: $109,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DECENCY FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetLIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHYY INC: $27,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN AMENDMENTS FOR THE GENERATIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAIR FOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIMS SERVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 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 SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FAIR FOOD ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIMS SERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA 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…The Gordon Charter Fo…Chubb Charitable Foun…Hess Foundation IncIndependence Foundati…Claneil Foundation IncThe Cigna Group Found…United Way of Greater…National Fish and Wil…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The William Penn FoundationPA23.4× affinity9 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 · 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

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 Austelle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Austelle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Austelle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Austelle Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 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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