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B & W Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$189kInternational$106kFood & Nutrition$90kHealth$65kAnimals$61kHuman Services$45kEducation$34kCivil Rights$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$3,144
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$20,000
PLASTIC OCEAN PROJECT$7,860
WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD$7,860
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION$7,860
CORAL REEF ALLIANCE$7,860
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$7,860
AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM - US$7,860
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY$7,860
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$5,240
LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER$5,240
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,240
PROJECT SANCTUARY$5,240
OCEAN FOUNDATION$5,240
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT$5,240
FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER$3,668
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%BABY BUREAU: $1k → 6%MOTHERS HOME: $3k → 10%CHILDREN FIRST: $500 → 22%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICAINTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC: $500 → 14%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%MOTHERS HOME: $3k → 10%PHILADELPHA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $2k → 22%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%MOTHERS HOME: $2k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA: $1k → 7%OPERATION WARM INC: $3k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%OPERATION WARM INC: $3k → 10%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $500 → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER: $4k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $1k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$423k · 37 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
81

Total granted

$423k
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+18%

Still filing today

84%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    3× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +20%
  • TC
    THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -7%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -17%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -35%
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
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
11
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Veterans Foundation of America. 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

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 132 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
71/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $21,360 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIA…Amazon Watch Inc: $19,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch IncWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $18,500 · EnvironmentWillistown Conservat…CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $14,860 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCEAN ACTION I…THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $12,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLI…The Ocean Foundation: $9,240 · EnvironmentThe Ocean FoundationOCEANA INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $5,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · Environment+8 more: $18,000 · Environment+8 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $24,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFMAP International Inc: $15,000 · InternationalMAP Internationa…INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $15,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RE…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOU…LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $5,240 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $5,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $5,000 · InternationalBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 · International+4 more: $8,500 · International+4 moreNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $17,500 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYFAMILY PROMISE OF SO CHESTER COUNTY: $12,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10,240 · OtherCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE: $9,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $12,860 · OtherWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $13,500 · OtherEckerd College: $17,000 · OtherEckerd CollegeCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $19,500 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC+47 more: $149,162 · Other+47 moreCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $24,240 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNS…CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNT…WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $19,195 · Food & NutritionWEST CHESTER …Feeding America: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ameri…PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $7,882 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA …MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEE…SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $17,860 · AnimalsBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $13,416 · AnimalsOneReef Worldwide Stewardship: $10,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $5,000 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INC: $3,500 · AnimalsPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 · Animals+4 more: $4,500 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' HOME: $6,572 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $5,620 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $4,290 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $3,668 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $3,523 · Human ServicesPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,000 · Human Services+9 more: $7,548 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 · HealthLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $5,240 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $5,000 · HealthThe Institute For Cancer Research: $4,000 · HealthCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $2,000 · HealthMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: $2,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · Health+4 more: $3,163 · Health
Environment$127,960International$102,740Other$260,762Food & Nutrition$86,317Animals$56,276Human Services$46,721Health$38,903

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $24,240 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $21,360 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $19,195 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $17,860 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEckerd College: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $14,860 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $13,416 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $12,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOneReef Worldwide Stewardship: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $9,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $7,882 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $7,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' HOME: $6,572 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $5,620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $5,240 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMEDICA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Foundation of America: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,524 over 5y, 0.4% 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.

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 Philadelphia Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…W W Smith Charitable …The Becket Family Fou…Connelly FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…United Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…Phillies Charities IncChester County Commun…Claneil Foundation IncGive Lively Foundatio…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA37.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Becket Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Veterans Foundation of America: 100% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report 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 B & W Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to B & W Family 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 132 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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