· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAGLEY FOUNDATION | $131,275 |
| FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $22,497 |
| PENN MUSEUM | $17,933 |
| KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION | $10,760 |
| KENNETT LIBRARY | $10,500 |
| KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION | $5,820 |
| CAMP DREAMCATCHER | $5,000 |
| ALEGRIA MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LONGWOOD GARDENS | $4,052 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 9 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KNKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $121k · revenue +35%
- 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
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.
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.
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…
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.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
Phipps' mission is to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research, and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 174 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds ALEGRIA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forney Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forney Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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