· Private foundation
Bbla Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $4,000 |
| BUCKINGHAM FRIENDS SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| RIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GEORGE SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| MERCER STREET FRIENDS | $1,350 |
| GET BENT FRIENDS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $800 |
| NATIONAL FRIENDS EDUCATION FUND | $750 |
| FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION | $750 |
| HAVERFORD COLLEGE | $700 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $700 |
| ST JAMES SCHOOL | $600 |
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 (FY19–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
114 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- GAGRID ALTERNATIVES8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +54%
- PHPROJECT HOME7× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +13%
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRITone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SSSOLEBURY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
- CBCODED BYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +114%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Episcopal Community Services of the Diocese of Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Light the Minds Inc. 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.
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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 141 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 GRID ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds LIGHT THE MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLEBURY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
- Who funds CODED BY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHTSHARINGOFWORLDRESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Lenape Chamber Ensemble 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: Kerr Family Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Waldman Family Charitable Trust · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Haley Foundation · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey
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 Bbla Foundation Inc 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Riverside Symphonia Inc — 17% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.