· Private foundation
Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+8 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $1,000,000 |
| U OF PENN - WHARTON | $750,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $500,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $500,000 |
| WILLS EYE FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE - TJU | $325,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY KATZ SCH OF MEDIC | $300,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $300,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $200,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $200,000 |
| U OF PENN - SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY | $180,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICI | $175,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $145,000 |
| U OF PENN - PERELMAN SCH OF MEDICIN | $100,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY KATZ SCH OF MEDIC | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 96% of your 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $817k 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
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $431k · revenue +45%
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +37%
- PCPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $375k
- UOU OF PENN - SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $350k
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Educationone grant, 2020 · $285k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 25 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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