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Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust
THE VISION OF THE DENNIS FAMILY IS TO CONTINUE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED IN RELATION WITH THE SITE THAT FURTHERS THE STUDY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOP BOTTOM HOSE COMPANY | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of your 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 +76% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue +76%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $19k
- KCKEYSTONE COLLEGE2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue -24%
Funded once
- TSTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -11%
- TCTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +173%
- MSMORGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Lincoln university is a public, historically black university (hbcu) that provides a liberal arts based, undergraduate education on its main residential campus in chester county, pennsylvania; and professional programs on its urban campus…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Morehouse college is a historically black college whose mission is to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Research & Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hop Bottom Hose Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADEPHIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC PA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE 1926 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Libra ↗
- Who funds THE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds African-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds HOP BOTTOM HOSE COMPANY ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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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