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Exelon 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.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$4.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$34MEnvironment$12MScience & Tech$7.1MEducation$4.7MCommunity Improvement$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.0MInternational$1.1MArts & Culture$750kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
  • $250k+7 grants · $11M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CYBERGRANTSJK GROUP MATCHING DONATIONS TO PCS-LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST$4,593,815
NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NEED)$2,610,000
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY$1,000,000
NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NEED)$940,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$399,545
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION$250,000
CURRENT INNOVATION NFP$150,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$150,000
FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$100,000
ROWAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE$25,000
HOOP DREAMS LIVE-LEARN-HOOP INC$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$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, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5k → 17%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $20k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 7%SAINT ANTHONY'S COMMUNITY CENTERCITY FARE: $5k → 10%ACLAMO (ACCION COMMUNAL LATINO AMERICANO DE MONTGOMERY COUNTY): $5k → 7%ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 22%RAHAB'S DAUGHTERS: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
MS
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60M · 17 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
101

Total granted

$60M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

65%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NE
    NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $12M · revenue +74% · 28% of their budget
  • KC
    Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +28%
  • BB
    BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $900k
  • UN
    US NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR UN WOMEN
    one grant, 2019 · $486k · revenue -76%
  • NF
    NETWORK FOR GOOD MATCHING DONATIONS TO PCS-LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2019 · $367k
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
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
2
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
5
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
6
United Way of Westchester and Putnam

United way of westchester and putnam mobilizes strategic partnerships and leverages resources to create a more equitable community by advancing education, financial stability, and health initiatives.

Human Services
7
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia

The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

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8
United Way of Delaware

The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.

Philanthropy
9
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
10
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…

Community Improvement
11
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
12
Central Philadelphia Development Corporation C/O Center City District

To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Monmouth and Ocean Counties; the most unlike its peers is Hoop Dreams- Live-Learn-Hoop. 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

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 148 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/95
Grantees still filing
58/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CYBERGRANTSJK GROUP MATCHING DONATIONS TO PCS-LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $34,156,137 · OtherCYBERGRANTSJK GROUP MATCHING DONATIONS TO PCS-LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQU…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $2,000,000 · Other+112 more: $4,852,992 · Other+112 moreNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $11,816,693 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOP…Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $7,000,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Scien…+7 more: $730,000 · Arts & CultureBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $2,275,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $330,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · Education+3 more: $60,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $202,500 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $41,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $250,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $25,000 · InternationalIMPRINT HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · InternationalCurrent Innovation NFP: $150,000 · EnvironmentNEW ECOLOGY INC: $100,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · Environment
Other$41,009,129Arts & Culture$19,546,693Community Improvement$2,350,000Education$1,540,000Philanthropy$793,500International$285,000Environment$255,000

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 budgetNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $11,816,693 over 6y, 28% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $7,000,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $2,275,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFEDERAL CITY COUNCIL: $500,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetUS NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR UN WOMEN: $486,002 over 1y, 20% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $330,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $202,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCurrent Innovation NFP: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ECOLOGY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity City Science Center: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT C: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES: $22,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHESTER COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUTIFUL GATE OUTREACH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBeach Buccaneers Youth Club: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTaking the Lead Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKREIDER SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWTOWN FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAME FIRE COMPANY OF WEST CHESTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetIMPRINT HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetDARLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MEDIA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLINDA CREED EPSTEIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOCOA PACKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

United Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…The Barra Foundation …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Philadelphia Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…The William Penn Foun…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Independence Foundati…The Patricia Kind Fam…The Wawa Foundation I…
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc

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 Exelon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Exelon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Beautiful Gate Outreach Center Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Station Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Loving Our Cities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Indians of Nj Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • New Ecology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 148 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home