· Public charity
Ccres
Provide educational services and behavioral health services on a regional basis throughout chester county and surrounding counties.
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.
The 12 grants below total $444,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,066,918 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $622,918 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $250k+1 grant · $348k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESTER CO INTERMEDIATE UNIT | $348,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY DEPT MENTAL HEALTH | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CHESTER CNTY ECON DEVELOP COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| COATESVILLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRIICT | $8,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY OIC | $7,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT | $7,000 |
| KENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| KENNETT AFTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES | $7,000 |
| THORNCROFT EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $7,000 |
| VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 51% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Ccres’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +10%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +41%
- SASPRINGFIELD AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +286%
Funded once
- GVGREAT VALLEY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHY YOUTHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- LLLAKE LEHMAN JACKSON EARLY LEARNINGone grant, 2017 · $12k
- LLLANCASTER LEBANON IU-13 EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALSone grant, 2018 · $11k
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.
The organizations mission is to nurture the development of our young people and guide them along the path to future success by providing an environment that supports excellence
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Ysc academy is licensed as a private academic school for grades 7-12.
Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.
Chester county futures supports and connects students with opportunities, resources and mentorship to empower success in school and post-secondary life.
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
Provide childcare to working parents, promote early childhood education.
The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.
The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…
Preschool education for 3, 4 and 5 year old children in the kennett square, pennsylvania area
Provided a community based hands-on, hearts-on, heads-on program for young learners and their families struggling with financial challenges. in december 2022, due to a declining number of staff and concern over the academy's ability to…
The mission of communities in schools of pennsylvania, inc. is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kennett Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Child's Light. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 55 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 UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF INTERMEDIATE UNITS ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN MINT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES THAT CARE OF GREATER DOWNINGTOWN ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PGSS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnership of Chester County Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S LIGHT ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Justamere Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · The Fund for Women and Girls · The Alliance for Health Equity · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Hankin Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The William Penn Foundation
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 Ccres 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.