· Private foundation
Fulton Forward 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k42 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $405k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Baltimore Community Lending | $250,000 |
| The Enterprise Center | $250,000 |
| Lancaster City Alliance | $120,000 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation Key Bridge | $75,000 |
| Alvernia University OPake Insitutes Student Powered Business Incubator | $60,000 |
| TEC CENTRO | $50,000 |
| LancasterHistory | $50,000 |
| PA CDFI Network | $50,000 |
| Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | $31,250 |
| Featherstone Foundation | $30,000 |
| UrbanPromise | $30,000 |
| The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust | $30,000 |
| Fauquier Habitat for Humanity | $30,000 |
| HCC Foundation for Workforce Development Scholorships | $30,000 |
| Graduate Philadelphia | $30,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Fulton Forward Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 48% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 43 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- LCLANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $466k · revenue +23%
- ACAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +13%
- YLYWCA LANCASTER2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- GPGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Associationone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +10%
COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +20%- SCSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +112%
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Provide low income housing to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness. construct simple, decent, affordable housing for low income families. make building materials available to homeowners at a low price.
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 plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
The housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government…
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…
Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…
To eliminate blighted housing conditions in the city of allentown's neighborhoods and to increase availability of housing opportunities for lower income residents by purchasing vacant, deteriorated residential properties and totally…
To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.
The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Yesusa Transformational Cities. 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 32 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 97 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 LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY LENDING INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA CDFI NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds African-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds YORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEC CENTRO LTD ↗
- Who funds Financial Wellness Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPHS CARPENTER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROPOLITAN BUSINESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWFOUND RISEUP FUND ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF YORK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUSQUEHANNA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS EDUCATION INITIATIVE 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: Td Charitable Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Columbia Bank 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 Fulton Forward 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bestwork Industries for the Blind Inc — 100% of income from government
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
- Homefree Usa Inc — 54% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Baltimore Community Lending Inc — 28% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County — 21% of income from government
- Financial Wellness Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- La Plaza Delaware 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.