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Fjn Charitable 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.
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 $10k31 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEVEREUX | $72,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $9,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $9,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $8,000 |
| FINDING SHELTER ANIMAL RESCUE | $8,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS | $7,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| FRANCISVALE | $6,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COL | $6,000 |
| PAWS | $6,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $5,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| COLONIAL THEATER | $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 (FY17–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +93%
Philabundance9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +101%- GSGemma Services9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $6k
- AOACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMURone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHESTER COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +93%
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.
The organization was formed to serve all functioning levels of individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities who reside primarily in the philadelphia metropolitan area. services provided include residential, outpatient and adult…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Ppi is operated solely by penn state health and is dedicated to providing exceptional clinical care, advancing diverse educational opportunities for the next generation of behavioral health specialists, fostering impactful research, and…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vinfen Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Kitty Connection Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds VINFEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMPANY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Speakeasy Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MELMARK INC ↗
- Who funds Kitty Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON EATS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Fjn Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vinfen Corporation — 83% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% 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.
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