· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $5,000 |
| Chester Childrens Chorus | $5,000 |
| The Agnes Irwin School | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -39% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- WSWESTTOWN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
- OSOld South Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 WAYFARING BAND INC ↗
- Who funds So Others May Learn ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PARK AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL IN ROSE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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