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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.

$562k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$417kRecreation & Sports$344kPhilanthropy$295kMembership Benefit$225kCrime & Legal$123kHuman Services$68kFood & Nutrition$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $240,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $562,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $321,550 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CITIZENS FOR FIRE PREVENTION$10,000
PHILABUNDANCE$10,000
MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
FOP SOUTH JERSEY LODGE 56$10,000
JUSTICE FOR DANIEL FAULKNER$10,000
ATLANTIC COUNTY TOYS FOR KIDS PROGRAM$10,000
TROOPER BRANDEN SISCA FOUNDATION$8,000
LOCAL 22 CHARITABLE TRUST$7,500
KEVIN REGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION$7,500
BRIAN NIEDELMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$7,500
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS SCHOOL$6,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POLICE YOUTH ALLIANCE: $20k → 7%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 24 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
20

Total granted

$2.3M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+38%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MC
    MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $224k · revenue +97%
  • IM
    INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $216k · revenue +1%
  • BT
    BEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $114k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +51%
  • DF
    D'ANGELO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $44k
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +8%
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
Police Athletic League of Philadelphia
Youth Development
2
Western Pennsylvania Police Benevolent Foundation Inc

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

Crime & Legal
3
Franklin Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association

Provide financial support to officers families who are injurred in the line of duty

Crime & Legal
4
Pa Fop Foundation

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…

Human Services
5
Pennsylvania State Police Camp Cadet of Lancaster County
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6
Pasco Police Foundation
Crime & Legal
7
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
—
8
Pennsylvania Troopers Helping Troopers Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Pennsylvania State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police

To provide services to and on behalf of lodge members. services include collective bargaining assistance and communications of issues related to members jobs.

—
11
Pittsburgh Fire Fighters Foundation Inc

Pittsburgh fire fighters foundation inc. is devoted to honoring and assisting fallen, retired, and active fire fighters and their families though memorials, aid, and education scholarships, as well as assisting those in need within the…

Arts & Culture
12
Wilt Chamberlain Memorial Fund Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 46 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTGOMERY COUNTY HERO FUND: $345,200 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY HERO FUNDFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE SOUTH JERSEY LODGE 56: $225,000 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE SOUTH JERSEY LODGE 56DANIEL FAULKNER EDUCATIONAL GRANT: $120,000 · OtherDANIEL FAULKNER EDUCATIONAL GRANTSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $50,000 · OtherD'ANGELO FOUNDATION: $43,800 · OtherPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $49,990 · OtherPhilabundance: $63,500 · OtherPhilabundance+18 more: $288,665 · Other+18 moreMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $223,828 · EducationMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEM…INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $215,650 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHO…BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $51,250 · EducationBUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOL…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $47,000 · EducationTemple University - Of Th…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY+2 more: $10,000 · EducationFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 5 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $321,103 · PhilanthropyFRATERNAL ORDER…MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 · PhilanthropyKEVIN FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · Community ImprovementBEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA: $114,039 · Recreation & SportsTHE BIG SANDBOX: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCitiznes for Fire Prevention Committee: $66,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLocal 22 Charitable Trust: $43,500 · Public Safety & DisasterDILIGENCE FIRE CO NO 1 OF SUMMIT HILL PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPreston's March for Energy Inc: $54,000 · HealthIMPACT CHARITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · HealthMINDING YOUR MIND: $5,000 · HealthCASEY DOOLIN MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,186,155Education$582,728Philanthropy$361,603Community Improvement$165,000Recreation & Sports$124,039Public Safety & Disaster$114,500Health$69,000

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 budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 5 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $321,103 over 5y, 21% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE SOUTH JERSEY LODGE 56: $225,000 over 7y, 51% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $223,828 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $215,650 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTIC CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 7y, 52% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA: $114,039 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCitiznes for Fire Prevention Committee: $66,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetPhilabundance: $63,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPreston's March for Energy Inc: $54,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $51,250 over 4y, 35% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $49,990 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLocal 22 Charitable Trust: $43,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LEGAL PLAN INC: $36,952 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $20,961 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTROOPER BRANDEN SISCA FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 5 HOME ASSOCIATION: $16,048 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKEVIN FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetKEY RECREATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHE BIG SANDBOX: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT CHARITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDILIGENCE FIRE CO NO 1 OF SUMMIT HILL PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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…Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Ibew Local #98 Labor …The Daniel B and Flor…Phillies Charities IncThe Wawa Foundation I…The Snider FoundationConnelly FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 46 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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