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Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELIEVE IN STUDENTS | $5,000 |
| MINDING YOUR MIND | $5,000 |
| CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| SURVIVORS ALLIANCE FOR GROWTH | $5,000 |
| THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM | $5,000 |
| CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| GREENER PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| JENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS | $5,000 |
| ACHIEVE NOW | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE WARDROBE | $5,000 |
| PROJECT BASED LEARNING INC | $5,000 |
| NORRISTOWN PAGE TURNERS | $5,000 |
| MINORITY CENTER FOR PARTICIPATION | $5,000 |
| ALLENS LANE ART CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 16 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- IDINN DWELLING INC6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +10%
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
- JAJENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARJOT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- OHOrdinarie Heroesgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +83%
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.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
To help young people and their families enhance their innate ability to think flexibly and meet challenges creatively.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Using the parent-child model ecp increases the potential for developing life-long positive relationship.
Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
Summary
Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 119 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 INN DWELLING INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds NEED IN DEED ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ARTZ PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW INC ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Cradle of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Achieve Now ↗
- Who funds ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds GARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry ↗
- Who funds KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS NEWLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN ↗
- Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK PHILLY ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION CENTER OF DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
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 · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Claneil Foundation Inc · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2
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 Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders 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.
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- 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.
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