· Private foundation
Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE SISTERS OF POOR | $785,065 |
| CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIV | $500,000 |
| WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $350,000 |
| MERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE | $60,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST PATRICK CHURCH | $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 (FY19–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 17% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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
- DHDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +4%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +45%
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- RFROGERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $435k
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $140k · revenue +7%- TBTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -4%
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…
Thomas jefferson university hospitals, inc. ("tjuh") is dedicated to improving the health of the communities we serve. we are committed to: 1) setting the standard for excellence in the delivery of patient care, patient safety and the…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…
Provision of charitable healthcare services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doylestown Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE 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: Frank R Goodman Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Seemon H & Natalie E Pines Fnd · Penn Community Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Franklin St Giving Tree 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% 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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