· Private foundation
Connelly Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k118 grants · $466k
- $10k–50k131 grants · $3.1M
- $50k–250k44 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+12 grants · $8.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA | $2,634,408 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $1,554,415 |
| COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL | $500,600 |
| ARCHBISHOP JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL | $456,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA | $450,000 |
| SHARING EXCESS INC | $400,000 |
| OFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION - ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA | $393,625 |
| INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS | $340,500 |
| PROJECT HOME | $295,500 |
| NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER | $258,500 |
| THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF ST CHARLES BORROMEO | $250,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $180,000 |
| BISHOP SHANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL | $150,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
303 repeat relationships — 218 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 78 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
- CSCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +34%
- IMINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS4× · 2021–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +17%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
Funded once
- S2SEE 2020 CASH GRANTS AWARDED SCHEDULEone grant, 2020 · $15M
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA - JOSEPHINE C CONNELLY ACHIVEMENT AWARDSone grant, 2023 · $1.2M
- FOFRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +145% · 29% of their budget
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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,…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Andalusia Foundation. 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.
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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% 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.
446 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. 446 of the 648 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
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
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF SCHOOL LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION 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: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial 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 Connelly 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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.