· Private foundation
Debenedictis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND | $25,000 |
| SAINT DENIS CHURCH | $25,000 |
| The Foundation for Delaware County | $5,000 |
| FREDS FOOTSTEPS | $5,000 |
| INFINITE ABILITIES INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COMPASSION UNITED HAVERTOWN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +10%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY5× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue -45%
- SDSAINT DENIS CHURCH5× · 2020–2025 · $125k
Funded once
- WCWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADESone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +11%
- MFMISSION FOR EDUCATING CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SCST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION UNITED HAVERTOWN ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Debenedictis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Debenedictis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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