· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOD OF EAST PA | $1,700 |
| TGR FOUNDATION | $1,700 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $1,500 |
| THE POTOMAC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON | $750 |
| CHANGING LATITUDES | $500 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $500 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $500 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Central Soup Society of Philadelphia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Soup Society of Philadelphia. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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