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Broughton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$177k
Granted FY2023
31
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of Broughton Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Philadelphia Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Broughton Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $177k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’20
17
’21
19
’22
17
’23
17
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Philanthropy$3.9MArts & Culture$198kHealth$139kReligion$110kHuman Services$59kHousing & Shelter$51kEducation$44kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0
02FY2023 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k28 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Upper Darby Arts and Education Foun$25,000
Willow Grove United Methodist Churc$20,000
ALS Association - Greater Philadelp$10,000
Ronald McDonald House$9,500
Whosoever Gospel Mission$9,000
Rydal Park Appreciation Fund$8,500
WWFM - The Classical Network$7,500
Fox Chase Cancer Center$7,500
Moore College of Art Design$7,000
VisionLink$6,000
Rose Tree Early Learning Center$6,000
Action Wellness$6,000
WRTI - Temple University Public Rad$5,000
MANNA$5,000
Wallingford Community Arts Center$4,500
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 (FY21–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Visionlink: $6k → 6%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $4k → 9%VisionLink: $6k → 6%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $4k → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $4k → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $3k → 9%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $6k → 10%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $6k → 10%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $6k → 10%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $5k → 10%Whosoever Gospel Mission: $9k → 22%Whosoever Gospel Mission: $9k → 22%Whosoever Gospel Mission: $9k → 22%Whosoever Gospel Mission: $8k → 22%Associated Services for the Blind: $6k → 22%Associated Services for the Blind: $6k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589k · 32 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$589k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • WG
    WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +0%
  • AI
    ActionAids Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • UD
    Upper Darby Arts & Edu Fdn
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • UD
    UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • WG
    Willow Grove United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
2
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
5
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
6
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
7
The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Arts & Culture
8
Pidc Development Management Corporation

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

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…

Community Improvement
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Saint John's Hospice. 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

18 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. 18 of the 42 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $3,914,441 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONWillow Grove United Methodist Churc: $60,000 · OtherWillow Gro…Upper Darby Arts and Education Foun: $51,000 · OtherUpper Darb…Ronald McDonald House: $37,300 · OtherRonald McD…Fox Chase Cancer Center: $30,500 · OtherFox Chase …Upper Darby Arts & Edu Fdn: $25,000 · OtherUpper Darb…Rydal Park Appreciation Fund: $25,000 · OtherRydal Park…GUIDEPOSTS FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · OtherALS Association - Greater Philadelp: $20,000 · OtherWWFM - The Classical Network: $17,500 · OtherSaint John's Hospice: $16,000 · OtherWRTI - Temple University Public Rad: $15,000 · OtherWillow Grove United Methodist Church: $15,000 · Other+15 more: $108,000 · Other+15 moreWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN: $34,500 · Human ServicesVisionLink: $24,000 · Human ServicesROSE TREE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $23,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesUPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $21,000 · EducationMain Line Art Center: $13,000 · Arts & CultureWayne Art Center: $11,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $13,000 · Food & NutritionActionAids Inc: $22,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Health
Philanthropy$3,914,441Other$442,300Human Services$106,500Education$46,000Arts & Culture$34,500Food & Nutrition$33,000Health$29,000

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 budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $3,914,441 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN: $34,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVisionLink: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROSE TREE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $23,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetActionAids Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSaint John's Hospice: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Art Center: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWayne Art Center: $11,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP: $10,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% 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 THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN ↗
  • Who funds UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VisionLink ↗
  • Who funds ROSE TREE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ActionAids Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Saint John's Hospice ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds Main Line Art Center ↗
  • Who funds Wayne Art Center ↗
  • Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP ↗
  • Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
  • Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS ↗

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…United Way of Greater…Chubb Charitable Foun…Cook Family FoundationEthel S C Smith No 5 …W W Smith Charitable …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Aetna Foundation IncVerizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Cook Family Foundation · Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Broughton Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Broughton 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 42 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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