· Private foundation
Child Development Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $28,500 |
| GWYNEDD MERCY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $25,000 |
| MISSION KIDS | $20,000 |
| VARIETY CLUB CAMP | $20,000 |
| SEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES INC | $20,000 |
| THEATRE HORIZON | $17,000 |
| GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA | $15,000 |
| MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| GEMMA SERVICES | $12,000 |
| GREATER NORTH PENN TRANSPORTATION M | $12,000 |
| CENTER SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $11,000 |
| KELLY ANN DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND | $10,000 |
| INDIAN CREEK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +201%
- SRSEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +11%
- MKMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +490%
Funded once
- GEGREAT EXPECTATIONS TOGETHER INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CTCENTRE THEATER OF NORRISTOWNone grant, 2020 · $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.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
Linwood creates the possibility of extraordinary lives for children and adults living with autism and related developmental disabilities by providing education, vocational training, residential support, and employment opportunities.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
The primary mission of the golden key center for exceptional children is to provide quality education and intervention services to students with developmental disabilities.
To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.
The organization's mission is to be a leader in the education and development of children with disabilities increasing the children's confidence in their individual abilities, preparing them to engage in the community, and expanding their…
May institute proudly serves individuals across the lifespan with autism, developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, neurological disorders, and behavior disorders to promote independence, choice, dignity, and respect. see…
The summit center, inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization approved by new york state to provide educational, therapeutic, and support services to children and young adults with autism, speech delays and disorders, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Best Buddies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 68 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 CENTRAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VNA - COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds THEATRE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATHWAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds BEST BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD ↗
- Who funds PEACE VALLEY HOLISTIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICWORKS ↗
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 Arcadia Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Genuardi Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Little Tower Foundation · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts
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 Child Development 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.
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