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Clarence a Rowell #2

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.

Education$131kHuman Services$127kArts & Culture$121kHousing & Shelter$120kFood & Nutrition$65kReligion$39kYouth Development$33kCommunity Improvement$28kOther$0
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL$15,000
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY$15,000
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA MUSIC$10,000
CENTER IN THE PARK INC$10,000
NORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC$10,000
DEPAUL USA INC$10,000
PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY$5,455
WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION$1,000
YOUNG WOMENS RESIDENCE INC$1,000
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 (FY17–26, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMIC FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $7k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $5k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%CENTRAL DIVISION VICTIM SERVICES: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $5k → 22%DANIEL J ORENS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $17k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $16k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $14k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK INC: $10k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $10k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK INC: $9k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK INC: $5k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $5k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $1k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $9k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15k → 22%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.

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$317k · 17 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
59

Total granted

$317k
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+38%

Still filing today

94%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WG
    WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN
    10× · 2017–2026 · $54k · revenue +69%
  • WC
    WISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2026 · $30k · revenue +40%
  • CI
    CENTER IN THE PARK
    4× · 2017–2026 · $29k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BROAD STREET MINISTRY
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -33%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • Education Law Center - PAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +28%

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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
4
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
7
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
8
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
9
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia

The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Daniel J Orens Foundation 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
16%
1,554/9,532

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

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN — $53,681 · Human ServicesWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION A…CENTER IN THE PARK — $29,000 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE PARKBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $15,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRYMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATIONFACE TO FACE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE INCPROJECT HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMECONNECTEDLY — $8,615 · Human ServicesGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC — $7,500 · Human Services+6 more — $25,550 · Human Services+6 moreMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION — $12,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTER OF — $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE ADVOCACY FOR THE ELDERLY — $10,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS RESIDENCE INC — $9,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF — $9,000 · OtherVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $17,276 · OtherVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia — $12,500 · OtherPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $10,000 · OtherHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $12,500 · OtherSENIORLAW CENTER — $10,000 · OtherPER SCHOLAS INC — $9,604 · Other+18 more — $98,565 · Other+18 moreWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL — $30,000 · EducationWISSAHICKON CHARTER…SAINT JAMES SCHOOL — $23,500 · EducationSAINT JAMES SCHOOLDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $15,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF GRE…Education Law Center - PA — $12,500 · EducationEducation Law Cente…READING ALLOWED — $10,000 · EducationREADING ALLOWEDTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UN…GREEN WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL — $7,500 · EducationGREEN WOODS CHARTER…HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationNational Liberty Museum — $18,000 · Arts & CultureNational Liberty…MUSICOPIA INC — $17,023 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA INCTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE — $15,668 · Arts & CultureTILT INSTITUTE F…ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureARDEN THEATRE CO…WOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART MUS…CHRIST CHURCH PRESERVATION TRUST — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHRIST CHURCH PR…PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY — $5,455 · Arts & CultureYes And Collaborative Arts — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSEWELL C BIGGS TRUST THE BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $4,200 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC — $17,500 · Food & NutritionCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD CONNECT CO — $7,500 · Food & NutritionDEPAUL USA INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVESTEDIN — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterUrban Resources Development Corporation — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGERMANTOWN UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $7,500 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc — $5,000 · Community ImprovementIPRAXIS — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$180,846Other$250,945Education$131,000Arts & Culture$111,346Food & Nutrition$35,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Community Improvement$27,500

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 budgetWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN — $53,681 over 10y, 0.9% of budgetWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER IN THE PARK — $29,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL — $23,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Liberty Museum — $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $17,276 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC — $17,023 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE — $15,668 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDEPAUL USA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $12,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Resources Development Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCONNECTEDLY — $8,615 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD CONNECT CO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGERMANTOWN UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH PRESERVATION TRUST — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL DIVISION VICTIM SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVESTEDIN — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYes And Collaborative Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSaint John's Hospice — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIPRAXIS — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The William Penn Foun…Connelly FoundationHenrietta Tower Wurts…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Union Benevolent Asso…Wh & Althea F Remmel …W W Smith Charitable …The Patricia Kind Fam…The Gordon Charter Fo…United Way of Greater…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA64.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Union Benevolent Association · Wh & Althea F Remmel Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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 Clarence a Rowell #2 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 · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 79 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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