· Private foundation
Forney Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hagley Foundation | $18,155 |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $12,561 |
| Kennett Library | $10,500 |
| Hagley Museum and Library | $9,953 |
| Penn Museum | $6,410 |
| Kalmar Nyckel Foundation | $5,820 |
| Alegria Montessori School | $5,000 |
| Camp Dreamcatcher | $5,000 |
| Longwood Gardens | $4,052 |
| Kalmar Nyckel Foundation | $3,846 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Delaware Theatre Company | $1,000 |
| Kennett Area Community Services | $1,000 |
| Brandywine Red Clay Alliance | $1,000 |
| Chester County Hospital Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- KNKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $114k · revenue +59%
- AGAVON GROVE CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +43%
- CDCAMP DREAMCATCHER6× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CCChester Cty Hospital Fdnone grant, 2020 · $91k
- LRLutheran Refugee Servicesone grant, 2020 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $40k
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 museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starke County Historical Society. 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 177 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 KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AVON GROVE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds KENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds ALEGRIA MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Chester County Community Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Sharp Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood 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 Forney Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brandywiners Ltd — 100% of income from government
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Wilmington Drama League — 6% of income from government
- Arden Club Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wilmington University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Archaeological Institute of America — 1% of income from government
- Alegria Montessori School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation 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.