· Public charity
Friends Fiduciary Corporation
Within the religious society of friends are many organizations requiring financial services to support their work.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $1,109,942 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,209,007 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,065 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $263k
- $250k+1 grant · $371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Realize Impact | $370,500 |
| Cheyney University | $186,500 |
| Friends Council on Education | $76,715 |
| Friends Committee on National Legislation Educatio | $32,321 |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting | $29,811 |
| Barclay Friends | $25,000 |
| Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music | $25,000 |
| Mercy Corps | $25,000 |
| Filmmakers Collaborative SF | $20,000 |
| Lansdowne Friends School | $18,845 |
| Howard University | $18,750 |
| The Way Christian Center | $15,000 |
| Waging Nonviolence | $15,000 |
| Friends Select School | $13,625 |
| Crosswicks Monthly Meeting | $13,290 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k 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
- TCTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $631k · revenue +652% · 71% of their budget
- FCFILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE3× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +102% · 33% of their budget
- FCFRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION3× · 2022–2024 · $172k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INCgraduated2× · 2020–2021 · $105k · revenue +86%
- CHCOLUMBUS HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduated2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +97%
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.
In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
Friends center corporation seeks to be a place that nurtures awareness of the presence of god, enlivens work for peace and justice, and invites the highest aspirations of the human spirit. as an expression of the beliefs and testimonies of…
To provide free civil legal services and advocacy to reduce the frequency and duration of homelessness in philadelphia.
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Waging Nonviolence Inc. 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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 91 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 THE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ESCHATON FOUNDATION DBA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New Kensington Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds The Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Waging Nonviolence Inc ↗
- Who funds FCL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BEN LOMOND QUAKER CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Friends Foundation for the Aging · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation
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 Fiduciary Corporation 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Connection Inc — 99% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Women and Families Center — 18% of income from government
- Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Meriden-Wallingford Chrysalis Inc — 1% 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.