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Friends Council on Education
The mission of the FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION is to provide leadership in drawing friends schools together in unity of spirit and cooperative endeavors.
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.
The 12 grants below total $154,020 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $276,790 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,770 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $35,995 |
| FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL | $17,325 |
| FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL | $17,210 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,600 |
| ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,600 |
| WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,600 |
| GEORGE SCHOOL | $11,025 |
| FRIENDS SCHOOL MULLICA HILL | $9,450 |
| NEWTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $7,875 |
| BUCKINGHAM FRIENDS SCHOOL | $6,300 |
| SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL | $5,840 |
| STRATFORD FRIENDS SCHOOL | $5,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
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
- AFABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +35%
- WPWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +13%
- FSFRIENDS SCHOOL CORPORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BFBROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $25k
- PFPRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -1%
- PYPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDSone grant, 2018 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Your grantees are a median of 53 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) — 0% 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.
6 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. 6 of the 25 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.
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: T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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 Friends Council on Education 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.
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.