· Private foundation
Ewing Cole Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENN | $10,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PHILLIES CHARITIES | $7,500 |
| THE GIANTS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $7,500 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SEPA | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE | $5,000 |
| THE NOMA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MANNA | $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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- EHESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +29%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +45%
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- BMBAYHELATH MEDICAKL CENTER FOUNDATIOone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +37%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +108%
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.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noma Foundation. 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 50 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 43 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 ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIES CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL II ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds THE NOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE ↗
- Who funds ACE Mentor Program of Eastern PA Inc DBA ACE Greater Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Saint John's Hospice ↗
- Who funds The Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment 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 Ewing Cole Charitable 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 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.