· Public charity
Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation
To provide financial relief to the families of fallen and critically injured first responders at their time of greatest grief and highest need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $240,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $562,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $321,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HERO FUND | $75,200 |
| ATLANTIC CITY POLICE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $22,452 |
| FOP LODGE 5 | $16,048 |
| ATLANTIC COUNTY TOYS FOR KIDS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JUSTICE FOR DANIEL FAULKNER | $10,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $10,000 |
| FOP SOUTH JERSEY LODGE 56 | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR FIRE PREVENTION | $10,000 |
| TROOPER BRANDEN SISCA FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| KEVIN REGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| LOCAL 22 CHARITABLE TRUST | $7,500 |
| BRIAN NIEDELMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS SCHOOL | $6,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- MCMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $224k · revenue +97%
- IMINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS7× · 2019–2025 · $216k · revenue +1%
- BTBEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA5× · 2019–2023 · $114k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +51%
- DFD'ANGELO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $44k
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +8%
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.
Provide funds to Police Officers and their families wounded or killed or disabled in the line of duty for healthcare, funerals and college of minor child
To assist the families of local lodges when law enforcement members are killed in the line of duty; assist injured, disabled, sick or distressed law enforcement members; assist retired and elderly law enforcement members; and create and/or…
Provide financial support to officers families who are injurred in the line of duty
To provide financial support to law enforcement officers or their families in distress or for the purpose of advancing their education. the organization will also provide financial support to other entities which are dedicated to the…
To provide services to and on behalf of lodge members. services include collective bargaining assistance and communications of issues related to members jobs.
The pennsylvania chiefs of police association is an organization of law enforcement executives promoting excellence and providing expertise in law enforcement and public safety within the commonwealth of pennsylvania through strong…
Provide financial assistance to families of officers injured or killed in the line of duty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Radnor Township Police Pension Fund. 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 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
34 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. 34 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 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 5 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE SOUTH JERSEY LODGE 56 ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Citiznes for Fire Prevention Committee ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds Preston's March for Energy Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds Local 22 Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LEGAL PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROOPER BRANDEN SISCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 5 HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEVIN FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEY RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIG SANDBOX ↗
- Who funds RADNOR TOWNSHIP POLICE PENSION FUND ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
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 · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Ibew Local #98 Labor Management Cooperative Committee Inc · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · The Wawa Foundation Inc · The Snider Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Families Behind the Badge Children's 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.
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.
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