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Elder 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Fund for Penn Medicine | $10,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Chicago | $10,000 |
| Chester Childrens Chorus | $5,000 |
| Lantern Theater Company | $5,000 |
| First Presby Church of Lake Forest | $5,000 |
| Park Avenue Community Center | $5,000 |
| Bedlam Theater | $5,000 |
| The School in Rose Valley | $5,000 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $5,000 |
| The Agnes Irwin School | $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 (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% 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 +64% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +100%
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%- PSPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- OSOld South Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- WSWESTTOWN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide a rigorous education and encourage pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lantern Theater Company and the most unlike its peers is Park Avenue Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANTERN THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds QUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds So Others May Learn ↗
- Who funds WAYFARING BAND INC ↗
- Who funds PARK AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL IN ROSE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Elder Family 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.
- Yale University — 12% 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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