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Chester County Community Foundation

The Chester County Community Foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.

$6.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
170
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$7.1MHuman Services$6.5MHealth$5.9MArts & Culture$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.1MAnimals$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MYouth Development$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 170 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 170 grants below total $5,166,836 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,591,868 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,425,032 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 $10k53 grants · $387k
  • $10k–50k93 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$12,879
Median grant
15
States reached
$136M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Endowment Foundation$1,012,650
Arts Holding Hands & Hearts$168,995
Community Volunteers in Medicine$155,848
Wharton Esherick Museum$151,455
Chester County Hospital Foundation$105,579
Elizabethtown College$100,000
North Wales Area Library$100,000
Wissahickon Valley Public Library$100,000
Fund for Women and Girls$89,514
Chester County Food Bank$86,380
RSVP$75,000
West Chester Area Senior Center$71,345
Kennett Area Community Service$69,500
Safe Harbor of Chester County$68,811
Quarryville Library$64,680
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSEASSOC OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS AAEP: $52k → 15%Foundation for the HorseAssoc of Equine Practitio: $47k → 15%ACLAMO: $100k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $432k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $111k → 6%Fund for Women and Girls: $90k → 6%FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $88k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $82k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $80k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $78k → 6%FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $75k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $66k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $63k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $60k → 6%FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $59k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOM & GIRLS: $59k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $58k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $56k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOM & GIRLS: $55k → 6%The Fund for Women and Girls: $53k → 6%YMCA of Greater Brandywine: $52k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $51k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $47k → 6%YMCA of Greater Brandywine: $44k → 6%COMMUNITY YOUTH AND WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $52k → 6%LCH HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1.0M → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $519k → 6%LCH HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $97k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $82k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $81k → 6%LCH HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $73k → 6%Kennett Area Community Service: $70k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $68k → 6%Kennett Area Community Service: $55k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $126k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $107k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $91k → 6%West Chester Area Senior Center: $71k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $69k → 6%West Chester Area Senior Center: $67k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $56k → 6%CHARLES A MELTON ART & EDUCATION CENTER: $52k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $47k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $63k → 6%Oxford Area Neighborhood Services Center: $43k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $130k → 6%ANN'S HEART: $51k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 209 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

209 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

209
172

Total granted

$26M
$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

88%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $735k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LH
    LCH Health and Community Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +98%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $962k · revenue +4%
  • KENNETT LIBRARY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $925k · revenue +426%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEMOURS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
  • JB
    JPS BIKINI BOTTOM ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2022 · $995k
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DELAWARE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chester County Community Foundation

The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.

Philanthropy
2
Chester County Hospital & Health System

The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.

Health
3
Chestnut Hill Conservancy

The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
6
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
7
Adamstown Area Library

The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…

Education
8
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
9
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
10
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
11
Children's Aid Society of Mercer County

To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Sugartown Incorporated. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Health SystemsCharter and Independent Sch…Intellectual Disability Sup…Volunteer Fire CompaniesFaith-Based International D…Youth Sports ProgramsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Higher Education Institutio…Disease Research and Patien…Social Justice Infrastructu…Homeless Services & Food As…Senior Affordable HousingPerforming Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr17%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%3/396
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/77,766

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.

04the grantee network

342 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. 342 of the 419 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
92
Early backer (in before they grew)
337/342
Grantees still filing
221/342
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JPS BIKINI BOTTOM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $995,000 · OtherJPS BIKINI BOTTOM ANIMAL SANCTUARYKENNETT LIBRARY — $925,247 · OtherKENNETT LIBRARYCOUNTY OF CHESTER — $478,493 · OtherOFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION — $386,682 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DELAWARE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC — $350,000 · Other+79 more — $7,331,100 · Other+79 moreLCH Health and Community Services — $1,331,900 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community…YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $962,329 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWI…WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER — $664,865 · Human ServicesWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR…KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $663,300 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY S…THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $608,621 · Human ServicesTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND G…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO — $331,430 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $310,600 · Human Services+23 more — $1,816,810 · Human Services+23 moreTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOU…COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $770,916 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUN…CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL — $512,445 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY …A HAVEN — $381,250 · HealthA HAVENPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $176,994 · HealthTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $151,599 · Health+20 more — $1,247,953 · Health+20 moreELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $884,655 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN C…WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $439,561 · EducationWEST CHESTER UN…THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $388,589 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMM…CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $351,027 · EducationCHESTER COUNTY …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $317,077 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE…SANFORD SCHOOL — $302,205 · EducationSANFORD SCHOOLMALOTO INC — $140,000 · Education+22 more — $1,313,954 · Education+22 moreAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,108,158 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $332,773 · PhilanthropyPHOENIXVILLE COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $203,947 · PhilanthropyWEST CHESTER DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION — $160,532 · PhilanthropyEasttown Library Foundation — $155,830 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $119,500 · PhilanthropyTEAM CMMD FOUNDATION — $88,500 · PhilanthropyPROJECT AKILAH INC — $80,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $147,678 · PhilanthropyWHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM — $1,010,794 · Arts & CultureChester County Historical Society — $152,500 · Arts & CultureUPTOWN KNAUER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $151,500 · Arts & CultureKENNETT SYMPHONY OF CHESTER COUNTY — $115,161 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $442,637 · Arts & CultureCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $424,250 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW — $219,083 · Food & NutritionWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD — $198,390 · Food & NutritionLUNDALE FARM INC — $130,179 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $42,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$10,466,522Human Services$6,689,855Health$4,241,157Education$4,137,068Philanthropy$2,396,918Arts & Culture$1,952,592Food & Nutrition$1,013,902

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLCH Health and Community Services — $1,331,900 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,108,158 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM — $1,010,794 over 9y, 43% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $962,329 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY — $925,247 over 6y, 12% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $884,655 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $770,916 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER — $664,865 over 9y, 15% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $663,300 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $608,621 over 9y, 11% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL — $512,445 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $439,561 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $424,250 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $388,589 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetA HAVEN — $381,250 over 5y, 31% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $351,027 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DELAWARE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC — $350,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $332,773 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO — $331,430 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetGOOD WORKS INC — $322,787 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $317,077 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $310,600 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $306,636 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetSANFORD SCHOOL — $302,205 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY 2020 — $279,267 over 9y, 89% of budgetPETRA COMMUNITY HOUSING — $276,315 over 8y, 12% of budgetARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC — $266,212 over 3y, 33% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW — $219,083 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetFriends of Marshall Square Park — $204,975 over 7y, 59% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $203,947 over 7y, 14% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD — $198,390 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY ACTIVE AGING — $192,441 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC — $188,380 over 9y, 11% of budgetPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $176,994 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetWEST CHESTER DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION — $160,532 over 6y, 42% of budgetEasttown Library Foundation — $155,830 over 6y, 11% of budgetChester County Historical Society — $152,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $151,599 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUPTOWN KNAUER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $151,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC — $151,500 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetHISTORIC SUGARTOWN INCORPORATED — $140,191 over 3y, 16% of budgetMALOTO INC — $140,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBARCLAY FRIENDS — $137,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $136,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $135,900 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC — $133,404 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER — $133,400 over 7y, 0.6% of budget
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 LCH Health and Community Services ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
  • Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds A HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DELAWARE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
  • Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SANFORD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY 2020 ↗
  • Who funds PETRA COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Marshall Square Park ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIXVILLE COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY ACTIVE AGING ↗
  • Who funds KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

United Way of Chester…The Gordon Charter Fo…Hankin FoundationJustamere FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe Dansko Foundation…W W Smith Charitable …Genuardi Family Found…The Fund for Women an…The Alliance for Heal…Chester County Food B…
United Way of Chester County IncPA133.5× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Chester County Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Hankin Foundation · Justamere Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · The Alliance for Health Equity · Chester County Food Bank

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 Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Sanford School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 419 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home