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Community Clothes Charity
Proceeds of a once-a-year three-day gently worn designer clothing sale are donated to 501(c)(3) charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $155,690 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $165,690 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESH ARTISTS | $34,840 |
| SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND | $25,000 |
| SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $25,000 |
| PETERS PLACE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 00418 | $20,000 |
| B INSPIRED PHILADELPHIA INC | $12,350 |
| VETERANS MULTI-SERVICE CENTER | $7,000 |
| GREATER PHIL ASSOC OF RECOVER | $6,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% 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 +83% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- OCORION COMMUNITIES INC2× · 2018–2019 · $58k · revenue +93%
- TBTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $54k · revenue +25%
Philabundance2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INCone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -2%
- TSThe Schuylkill Center For Environmental Educationone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -4%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +124%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 30 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds The Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ORION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds Chester County Family Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE & ACHIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOCUST LANE RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds B INSPIRED PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN NAT'L WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF RECOVERY EDUCATION ↗
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 · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Falconhead Foundation Inc · The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc · Connelly 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 Community Clothes Charity 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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