· Public charity
Chester County Bar Foundation
To promote educational, literacy, scientific and charitable purposes.
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 9 grants below total $127,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $179,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,650 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 $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PA | $31,000 |
| CRIME VICTIMS CENTER OF CHESTER CO | $17,500 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER | $16,750 |
| CHESTER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE | $13,000 |
| GATEWAY HORSEWORKS | $12,000 |
| SENIORLAW CENTER | $9,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY | $6,500 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $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, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% 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.
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 +105% since the first grant, against +87% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 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
- LALEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +107%
- CVCRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +22%
- DVDomestic Violence Center of Chester County9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CCCHESTER COUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNITone grant, 2024 · $11k
- HPHousing Partnership of Chester County Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +87%
- CUCHEYNEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private…
Clasi provides free civil legal services to people with disabilities; people with low incomes; victims of housing discrimination; older citizens (60 and over); victims of domestic violence; and immigrant victims of crime, abuse and neglect.
To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of Chester County and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HORSEWORKS ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnership of Chester County 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · United Way of Chester County Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · Independence Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester County · The Alliance for Health Equity · Td Charitable 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 Chester County Bar 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.