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FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY
The FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY works as a collaborative partner to lead (cont'd in sch o)and support efforts which preserve and improve the fairmount park system in order to enhance the quality of life and stimulate economic development of the greater philadelphia region.
$43k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
greenwaycivic engagement
2020
civic engagement
2021
civic commons
2022
civic commons
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$17,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WELCOME AMERICA INC$17,000
- FRIENDS OF MATTHIAS BALDWIN PARK$7,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 20%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$969k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +152% since the first grant, against +83% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
9
Total granted
$1.1M
$962k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+152%
+83%
Still filing today
100%
56%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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
BARTRAM'S GARDENJOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2022 · $255k · revenue +135%- CPCENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC3× · 2020–2022 · $255k · revenue +1452% · 27% of their budget
- SMSTRAWBERRY MANSION CDC2× · 2021–2022 · $255k · revenue +606%
Funded once
- FPFAIRMOUNT PARK TRUST FUNDSone grant, 2020 · $359k
- PPPHILADELPHIA PARKS & RECREATIONone grant, 2021 · $325k
- RNRIVERFRONT NORTH PARTNERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $162k · revenue +231%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
The philadelphia museum of art is committed to being the cultural heart of philadelphia. (sch o)pma is a national and international destination for art, but first and foremost we are philadelphia's museum for all the many diverse…
Arts & Culture
2
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Improve quality of life by enhancing pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Recreation & Sports
3
Fairmount Park Conservancy
The fairmount park conservancy works as a collaborative partner to lead (cont'd in sch o)and support efforts which preserve and improve the fairmount park system in order to enhance the quality of life and stimulate economic development of…
Environment
4
Friends of the Rail Park
Friends of the rail park was founded to cultivate visions, advocate for, and ultimately manage a continous three-mile linear park and recreation path in philadelphia.
Environment
5
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…
Youth Development
6
Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation
Pvcc's mission is to enhance the experience to visitors to philadelphia by providing exceptional customer service and access to all that the city has to offer.
Community Improvement
7
City of Philadelphia Trustee
Organization's mission established in 1832 as a gift from james wills, a philadelphia merchant, to the city of philadelphia, wills eye's mission is to provide excellence in ophthalmic care to the community in need. wills eye advances this…
Health
8
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development ofthe city of philadelphia's central waterfront. this task is of vitalimportance to the city and one which the city would otherwise berequired to perform itself absent the…
Community Improvement
9
Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
10
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
Environment
11
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
The athenaeum of philadelphia nurtures curiosity in members and neighbors, strengthening community through learning, discourse and meaningful engagement. the athenaeum is a historic and vibrant philadelphia-centered and member-supported…
Education
12
Frankford Community Development Corporation
The Frankford Community Development Corporation FCDC is dedicated to the asset-based development of Lower Northeast Philadelphia by focusing on job creation affordable and workforce housing development improving awareness and outcomes…
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mt Airy Usa and the most unlike its peers is Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,252,337Community Improvement$672,390Environment$81,250Arts & Culture$49,039
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 FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARTRAM'S GARDENJOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY MANSION CDC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT NORTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON ↗
- Who funds MT AIRY USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RYERSS AT BURHOLME ↗
- Who funds MEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
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.
The William Penn FoundationPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 15.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 474815728 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Fairmount Park Conservancy?
Find your warmest path to Fairmount Park Conservancy through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines