· Private foundation
Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $40,000 |
| CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC | $40,000 |
| CCSA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RIDDLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NEUMANN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY | $20,000 |
| GREENER PARTNERS | $20,000 |
| PROSPECT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHESTER | $15,000 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDU FDN INC | $15,000 |
| DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 18 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- RMRiddle Memorial Hospital4× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +76%
- CYCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC5× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +166%
- CFCCSA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CACHILDREN AND ADULT DISABILITYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- CICADES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ACA COMMUNITY CENTER ESTABLISHED BYone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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 philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To create theatre of the highest professional quality in delaware and thereby enrich the vitality of the area through artistic programming, education, and community service.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…
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…
Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.
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 Cultureworks Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Rose Tree Pops Orchestra. 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 37 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
157 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. 157 of the 212 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds Riddle Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CCSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER ↗
- Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENCORE SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS' NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SALUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROSE VALLEY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Upper Chichester Library ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Wayne Art Center ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL LEGAL AID OF THE DIOCESE OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
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: Foundation for Delaware County · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Community's Foundation · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders 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 Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw 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
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.