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David Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROARING CREEK VALLEY CONSERVATION A | $4,800 |
| FRIENDS OF WORCESTER | $3,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL PA CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| LIVINGSTON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL CEMETERY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL CEMETERY | $1,000 |
| PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL | $800 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $800 |
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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES6× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +392%
- SJST JOHN LAND CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +664%
- NPNORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +865%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- ACALLONE CHARITIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +194%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
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 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…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
Earth conservancy is a nonprofit organization committed to the reclamation and return of over 16,000 acres of former coal company-owned land to the region. it collaborates with local communities, government agencies, education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Historical Society. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 95 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 FRIENDS OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lake George Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROLLEY CAR HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INC ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY SUPPERS ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER ARTS & LECTURES ↗
- Who funds ALLONE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Park County Environmental Council ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Highlands Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISSAHICKON VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Freeman Family Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · The Nararo Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 David Family Charitable 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.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% 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.
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