· Private foundation
Falconhead Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BYERS CHARTER SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD SHARING EXCESS | $35,000 |
| PRINT CENTER NEW YORK | $30,000 |
| FREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| B INSPIRED PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SECOND U FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| HARLEM LACROSSE | $7,500 |
| THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS | $5,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GESU SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BAKER INDUSTRIES | $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 (FY17–22, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FFFREIRE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $123k · revenue +24%
- HAHARLEM ACADEMY8× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +83%
- TATHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- TSTHE SHIPLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +141%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
The mission of liguori academy is to prepare future leaders through individualized learning in a community that offers boundless opportunities. liguori academy uses individualized curricula to drive the instructional approach each student…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
To break the cycle of generational poverty by preparing low-incom students for higher education. we commit to a philosophy that includes the practice of civility, disciplined academic work in the (continued on schedule o)
The mission of jersey city community charter school (jcccs) is to provide each student with innovative learning experiences that develop positive intellectual, social, and physical outcomes. jcccs is focused on promoting self-directed,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Episcopal Community Services of the Diocese of Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Global Aids Interfaith Alliance (Gaia). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 46 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 MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds B INSPIRED PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds FREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA) ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds A SECOND U FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEABILITY ↗
- Who funds Chester County Family Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds No Greater Sacrifice Foundation ↗
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 · Community Clothes Charity · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Haldeman Family Foundation · The 1830 Family Foundation 2138-00-42 · The Brook J Lenfest Foundation Inc · The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation · Future Standard 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 Falconhead Foundation Inc 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
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.