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Fueling the Climb Foundation

FUELING THE CLIMB FOUNDATION will make grants to established section501(c)(3)organizations who are working towards the betterment of ourcommunity and country

$195k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$65,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$17k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Fueling the Climb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$195k100%
FY20224$240k100%
FY20212$120k100%
FY20193$195kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$310kHealth$250kInternational$65kAnimals$65kYouth Development$60k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Fueling the Climb Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rags 2 Riches Animal Rescue$65,000118%
22kill$65,00013%
Operation Warm Inc$65,00010%
Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc$65,00010%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$65,00010%
Fair Girls Inc$65,00019%
Pathways Pa Inc$60,00013%
Headstrong Foundation$60,00012%
Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors Inc$60,00014%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Delaware Inc$60,00012%
Travis Manion Foundation$60,00011%
Boys' & Girls' Club of Chester$60,00018%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fueling the Climb Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRags 2 Riches Animal Rescue: $65,000 over 1y, 18% of budget22kill: $65,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFair Girls Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPathways Pa Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHeadstrong Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPennsylvania Wounded Warriors Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Delaware Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoys' & Girls' Club of Chester: $60,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Fueling the Climb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fueling the Climb 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.

About Fueling the Climb Foundation

How much does Fueling the Climb Foundation give?
Fueling the Climb Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $195,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does Fueling the Climb Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Health (33%), International (9%).
Who are Fueling the Climb Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Rags 2 Riches Animal Rescue ($65k), 22kill ($65k), Operation Warm Inc ($65k).
Does Fueling the Climb Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fueling the Climb Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Wsfs Cares Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
Where is Fueling the Climb Foundation based?
Fueling the Climb Foundation is based in PA.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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