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Ewing Cole Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$402kEducation$401kPhilanthropy$136kReligion$63kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$10kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE$10,000
TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENN$10,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL$7,500
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$7,500
PHILLIES CHARITIES$7,500
THE GIANTS FOUNDATION$7,500
MAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL$7,500
UNITED WAY OF SEPA$5,000
CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE$5,000
THE NOMA FOUNDATION$5,000
PROJECT HOME$5,000
MANNA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $500 → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $500 → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$848k · 21 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$848k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+44%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EH
    ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +29%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +45%
  • GH
    GEISINGER HEALTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • BM
    BAYHELATH MEDICAKL CENTER FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +37%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +108%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Drexel University

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…

Education
2
Philadelphia University

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…

Education
3
Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education
4
Highmark Health Group

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…

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5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Temple University Hospital Inc

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…

Health
8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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9
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
11
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
12
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherBAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONGEISINGER FOUNDATION: $93,000 · OtherGEISINGER FOUNDATIONCARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherCARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOLPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYBAYHELATH MEDICAKL CENTER FOUNDATIO: $50,000 · OtherBAYHELATH MEDICAKL CENTER FOUNDATIOPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $40,000 · OtherPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY+14 more: $70,500 · Other+14 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INCVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL I…NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,500 · EducationMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL II: $12,500 · EducationACE Mentor Program of Eastern PA Inc DBA ACE Greater Philadelphia: $10,000 · EducationTHE NOMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUND…GEISINGER HEALTH: $55,000 · HealthGEISINGER HEALTH+1 more: $2,500 · HealthPHILLIES CHARITIES INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · ReligionHOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $5,000 · Human ServicesWings for Success Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$513,500Education$275,000Health$207,500Philanthropy$32,500Religion$13,500Human Services$13,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIES CHARITIES INC: $32,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL II: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACE Mentor Program of Eastern PA Inc DBA ACE Greater Philadelphia: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NOMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's Hospice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…Citizens Charitable F…Renaissance Charitabl…Ibm International Fou…Verizon FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ewing Cole Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ewing Cole Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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