Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Five Below Foundation
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 26
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Five Below Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $1.1M | 54% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $507k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $640k | 81% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $170k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Partners | $670,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $205,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eagles Autism Challenge Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Please Touch Museum | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center City District Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Philabundance | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Eluna Formerly the Moyer Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($414k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Five Below Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Independence Blue Cross Foundation · The Tuttleman Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Five Below Foundation
- How much does Five Below Foundation give?
- Five Below Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,073,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Five Below Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (22%), Youth Development (19%).
- Who are Five Below Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Reading Partners ($670k), Boys & Girls Clubs of America ($205k), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation ($125k).
- Does Five Below Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Five Below Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Five Below Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Connelly Foundation.
- Where is Five Below Foundation based?
- Five Below Foundation is based in PA.
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