· Private foundation
Central Soup Society of Philadelphia
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $3,900 |
| MOUNTAIN LAKES COMMUNITY SERVICE | $3,500 |
| THE LIGHT HOUSE | $2,000 |
| WESTSIDE FOOD PANTRY | $1,800 |
| GREENS FARMS ACADEMY | $1,750 |
| TGR FOUNDATION | $1,700 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOD OF EAST PA | $1,700 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $1,500 |
| THE POTOMAC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON | $750 |
| A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN | $500 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $500 |
| DR THEODORE ATLAS FDN | $500 |
| CHANGING LATITUDES | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Philabundance6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +0%- TLTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +18%
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- LWLAKE WALES CARE CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -3%
- GFGREENE FARMS ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $2k
FOOD RESCUE US INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +41%
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 food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
We use food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities. dcck prepares people facing high barriers to employment for culinary careers, and creates jobs for our graduates through innovative programs that expand…
Manna food center, inc strives to end hunger in our community through education, advocacy, and food distribution to individuals and partner agencies. manna's guiding principles are to be service-driven, community- centered and…
As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, share food program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to…
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Central Soup Society of Philadelphia 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc — 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.
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