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Franklin St Giving Tree 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$5.0MHealth$4.3MReligion$3.2MHuman Services$1.3MPhilanthropy$446kArts & Culture$325kInternational$200kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.4M
$500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$1,500,000
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE$1,000,000
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$500,000
ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$350,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$50,000
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CHURCH$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FACE TO FACE: $1k → 22%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 13 repeat orgs$882k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$16M
$832k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+68%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CL
    CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +79%
  • DH
    DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +4%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • RF
    ROGERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $435k
  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k · revenue +7%
  • TB
    THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -4%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
2
Philadelphia University

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…

Education
3
Drexel University

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…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
New York University

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.

Education
6
Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc

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…

Health
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
9
Jefferson Health - Northeast

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…

Health
10
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

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.

Health
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Penn State Health

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doylestown Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $2,325,000 · EducationWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE+1 more: $150,000 · EducationCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3,500,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUT…THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $1,000,000 · ReligionTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF G…DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,106,000 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDA…ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $870,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL…+2 more: $15,000 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF POOR: $1,295,065 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF POORPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $700,000 · OtherROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHROGERS FOUNDATION: $435,000 · OtherROGERS FOUNDATIONMERCER MUSEUM & FONTHILL CASTLE: $180,000 · Other+10 more: $351,000 · Other+10 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $446,142 · Community ImprovementPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · InternationalPEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC: $59,506 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $50,000 · InternationalNational Liberty Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$4,975,000Religion$4,500,000Health$3,991,000Other$3,961,065Community Improvement$446,142International$249,506Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3,500,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,106,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $2,325,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $870,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $446,142 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC: $59,506 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Liberty Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $10,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLENAPE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Frank R Goodman Famil…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Seemon H & Natalie E …Penn Community Bank F…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
Frank R Goodman Family FoundationCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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