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Future Standard Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$815k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
138
Grants FY2024
55
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
55 to 135
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
21
Total assets, FY2024
$86k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Future Standard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving91$815k42%
FY202355$682k33%
FY202266$667k45%
FY202176$504k41%
FY2020107$477k41%
FY2019126$661k40%
FY2018135$616k59%
FY2017124$624kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$964kHealth$684kPhilanthropy$616kHuman Services$299kYouth Development$290kCivil Rights$283kCommunity Improvement$219kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 294 grantees
All grantees of Future Standard Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Financial Scholars Inc$325,567317%
Invest in Others Charitable Foundation Inc$260,10083%
Anti-Defamation League$205,10070%
The Philadelphia Citizen$190,000611%
The Franklin Institute$152,50070%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$150,00030%
Fringearts$141,30062%
The Barnes Foundation$140,75080%
American Heart Association Inc$120,38870%
Philadelphia Soccer 2026$115,00031%
Team Impact Inc$100,00031%
The University of the Arts$90,00060%
Urban Affairs Coalition$85,00070%
American Cancer Society Inc$70,69170%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$70,00070%
Forum of Executive Women$66,57073%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$61,66740%
Expect Miracles Foundation$60,93141%
Womens Way$60,03561%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$58,87960%
Community College of Philadelphia Foundation$57,00031%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$50,00010%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$50,00020%
Travis Manion Foundation$40,83430%
Philadelphia Fund Alliance$36,3004n/a
Squashsmarts Inc$35,1002n/a
Education Law Center - PA$35,05040%
Villanova University$34,15040%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$32,50060%
Rock to the Future Inc$31,15051%
Committee of Seventy$30,00041%
Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation Inc$30,00040%
Zoological Society of Philadelphia$30,00030%
Drexel University$30,00040%
Vetri Foundation for Children$27,75041%
Gateway to Leadership Foundation$25,000144%
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$25,00010%
Child Mind Institute Inc$25,00010%
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Corporation$25,00026%
Philadelphia Reads Inc$24,00032%
Kellman Brown Academy$22,50050%
Independence Historical Trust$22,50011%
Merakey Foundation$22,40061%
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia$22,25050%
Four Block Foundation Inc$20,00040%
Seal-Nsw Family Foundation$20,00040%
Philadelphia Theatre Company$20,00020%
The Salvation Army$19,0753n/a
Center City District Foundation$18,85022%
Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc$18,35030%
National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Inc$18,30420%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$17,96730%
Living Beyond Breast Cancer$16,15050%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$16,00020%
Black Women in Sport Foundation$15,00032%
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia$15,00030%
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc$15,00010%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$13,50030%
LPL Financial Foundation Inc$13,50030%
Greenlight Fund Inc$12,50010%
Feeding America$12,00030%
Philadelphia Police Foundation$12,00031%
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$11,60040%
Services and Advocacy for Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Elders Inc$11,50050%
Eagles Autism Challenge Inc$11,05430%
Make the World Better Foundation Inc$10,50021%
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance$10,30040%
Broad Street Ministry$10,10030%
The Herren Project$10,00011%
Children's Crisis Treatment Center$10,00010%
Teach for America Inc$10,00010%
Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial Inc$10,0001n/a
Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter Schoo$10,00030%
Global Poverty Project Inc$10,00020%
Wissahickon Foundation$10,0002n/a
Little Quakers Inc$10,00026%
Gaudenzia Inc$10,00020%
Haverford School$10,00010%
Magic Foundation$10,00031%
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia$10,00010%
Forum Foundation$10,0001n/a
Please Touch Museum$10,00010%
Fairmount Park Conservancy$10,00020%
The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia$10,00020%
Movember Foundation$9,37150%
The Johns Hopkins Hospital$8,20010%
Achieveability$8,10340%
Wissahickon Charter School$8,00030%
Children First PA$8,00040%
United Negro College Fund Inc$7,50030%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc$7,00020%
Achieve Now$6,00011%
Children's Cancer Research Fund$5,75020%
Caring Cetera$5,50046%
Freire Foundation$5,50030%
Freire Charter School$5,25020%
Camp Tecumseh Inc$5,15020%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$5,05020%
Futures and Options Inc$5,00010%
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc$5,00010%
National Diversity Council$5,00010%
The Parent-Infant Center$5,00020%
The Educational Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Global Lyme Alliance Inc$5,00010%
National Center for Lgbtq Rights Fka National Center for Lesbian Rights$5,00010%
Phillies Charities Inc$5,00010%
Saint Joseph's University$5,00010%
Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association$5,00010%
Encourage Kids Foundation$5,00010%
The New 42nd Street Inc$5,00010%
Will's Good Works Foundation Inc$5,000117%
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project$5,00010%
College Possible Inc$5,00010%
Smithsonian Institution$5,00010%
The Mattress Factory Ltd$5,00020%
City Year Inc$5,00010%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh$5,00010%
Association for Public Art$5,00010%
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$5,00010%
Pact$5,00012%
Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation$5,00010%
Her Justice Inc$5,00010%
Caves Valley Golf Club Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Slay Sarcoma Research Initiative$4,500418%
Big Picture Philadelphia$4,35020%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$3,85420%
Eighty-Seven & Running$3,80011%
Jewish Learning Venture$3,50070%
Kipp Philadelphia Charter School$3,50020%
The Eagles Charitable Foundation Inc$3,50010%
Philadelphia Vip Inc$3,25030%
Playworks Education Energized$3,05020%
Widener University$3,00030%
Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund$3,00032%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia$3,00010%
Rutgers University Foundation$3,00040%
City Harvest Inc$3,00010%
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey$2,83510%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,65020%
The Cooper Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Free Arts for Abused Children of New York City Inc$2,50010%
Shelter Our Soldiers Inc$2,5001n/a
Citymeals-On-Wheels$2,50010%
Project Sunshine Inc$2,50010%
Operation Breakthrough Inc$2,50010%
The Print Center$2,50010%
Philabundance$2,45050%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,20540%
The Attic Youth Center$2,19110%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc$2,0002n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island$2,0002n/a
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$2,00020%
Philadelphia Orchestra Association$1,50030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,50020%
Bebashi-Transition to Hope$1,50010%
Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$1,50030%
The John Bartram Association$1,50010%
Feeding Children Everywhere Inc$1,25010%
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc$1,25010%
Emily Whitehead Foundation$1,20010%
Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association$1,19210%
Federation of Neighborhood Centers$1,02520%
1789 Fund$1,0002n/a
Westover School Inc$1,00010%
The Bottleshare Inc$1,0001n/a
United States Capitol Historical Society$1,00010%
Youth Service Inc$1,00020%
Girls Who Invest Inc$1,00010%
Balletx$1,00020%
Canyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc$1,00020%
Abington Friends School$1,00020%
New York Common Pantry$1,00010%
Friends Central School Corporation$1,0001n/a
Seminole Boosters Inc$1,00010%
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc$1,00020%
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society$90820%
Ross K Macneill Foundation$75010%
Catrock Ventures Inc$75020%
The Montessori Children's House of Valley Forge Inc$65010%
The Breathing Room Foundation Inc$60020%
Garces Family Foundation$57030%
Fighting Back Scholarship Program Inc$55010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$55020%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc$50010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland$50010%
Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia Inc$50010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$50010%
Direct Relief$50010%
Compassion International Incorporated$50010%
Stand Up With Comedy$5001n/a
Lupus Foundation of America Inc$50010%
Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc$50010%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$50010%
The Meadowbrook School$50020%
Chitrapur Heritage Foundation USA Inc$50010%
NAMI National$50010%
Ecole Francaise Internationale de Philadelphie$50010%
Atlanta Union Mission Corporation$50010%
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy$50010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$50020%
Fresh Artists$50010%
Every Body Athletics$50010%
The Career Wardrobe$50010%
Gha Autism Supports$50010%
The Little Baby Face Foundation Inc$50010%
Women Against Abuse Inc$50020%
Forgotten Cats Inc$45020%
Project Home$45020%
Las Vegas Victims' Fund$4261n/a
Jenkintown Education Foundation$4001n/a
Cradle of Liberty Council 525 Boy Scouts of America$40010%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth$38510%
Community of Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal$3501n/a
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation Inc$33520%
Autism Speaks Inc$3251n/a
Lifetime Wells International$30540%
Variant 6$30330%
Springboard Collaborative$3001n/a
Reading Assist Institute$30020%
Stonehill College Inc$30050%
Coleman Professional Services Inc$30010%
Animal Care and Control Team$27450%
Appalachia Service Project Inc$25010%
Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc$25010%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$25010%
The Center for Loss and Bereavement$25010%
Team Final Basketball$2501n/a
Praise Is The Cure Inc$2501n/a
The Grace Network$2501n/a
Whyy Inc$22020%
Horace Mann School$20020%
Center for Contemporary Dance The$2001n/a
Salla Treatment and Research Foundation Inc$20010%
The Ability Experience$20010%
Vanderbilt University$20010%
Prep for Prep$20020%
Colorado Haiti Project Inc$20010%
Commonlit Inc$20010%
Lymphoma Research Foundation$20010%
Street Tails Animal Rescue$20010%
Northwestern University$20010%
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Inc$20010%
Healing the Children New Jersey Inc$18010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$17520%
Washington and Lee University$17510%
March of Dimes Inc$16010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$14020%
Project H O P E Inc$1201n/a
Breakthrough T1d$11020%
Our Lady of Hope Regional Catholic School$1101n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10510%
Food Allergy Research & Education Inc$10310%
Re-Bicycle Lenawee$1001n/a
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc$10010%
Northern Children's Services$10010%
The Phoenix House Inc$1001n/a
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$10010%
Management Leadership for Tomorrow$10010%
Thomas Jefferson University$10010%
The Enterprise Center$1001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$10010%
Trustees of Boston College$10010%
Special Equestrians Inc$10010%
Squash Haven Inc$10010%
Best Seat in the House$1001n/a
Aj Foundation for Children With Autism$9810%
Covenant House$7510%
Danny & Rons Rescue$7510%
Makom Community$7210%
Trustees of Tufts College$7210%
National Center for Youth Law$5010%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$5010%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$5010%
Bucks County Free Library$5010%
Limen House Inc$5010%
Humane Animal Partners$5010%
Vna Foundation Inc$5010%
Philadelphia University$5010%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$5010%
Project Sweet Peas$5010%
Children's Cancer Center Inc$5010%
Family Resource Associates Inc$5010%
Bowdoin College$5010%
Unite for HER$5010%
Spay N Save Inc$4510%
Joyful Readers Inc$3610%
Project Meow$3010%
Crossed Paws Pet Rescue Inc$2510%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$2510%
Project Bike Love$251n/a
Child Advocates Inc$2510%
Children's Miracle Network$2510%
Radnor Elementary School PTO Inc$2510%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$1710%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 122 recipients with no EIN on record ($880k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Future Standard Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFinancial Scholars Inc: $325,567 over 3y, 17% of budgetInvest in Others Charitable Foundation Inc: $260,100 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $205,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Philadelphia Citizen: $190,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe Franklin Institute: $152,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFringearts: $141,300 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $140,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $120,388 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Soccer 2026: $115,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTeam Impact Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of the Arts: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Affairs Coalition: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $70,691 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetForum of Executive Women: $66,570 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $61,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetExpect Miracles Foundation: $60,931 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWomens Way: $60,035 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPhiladelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc: $58,879 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity College of Philadelphia Foundation: $57,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $40,834 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $35,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVillanova University: $34,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRock to the Future Inc: $31,150 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCommittee of Seventy: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetArnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDrexel University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVetri Foundation for Children: $27,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGateway to Leadership Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChild Mind Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBen Franklin Technology Partners Corporation: $25,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPhiladelphia Reads Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKellman Brown Academy: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIndependence Historical Trust: $22,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMerakey Foundation: $22,400 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $22,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFour Block Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSeal-Nsw Family Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Theatre Company: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCenter City District Foundation: $18,850 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Youth Basketball Inc: $18,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Inc: $18,304 over 2y, 0.3% 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 200.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA77.8× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · Independence Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation

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 Future Standard Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Future Standard 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 Future Standard Foundation

How much does Future Standard Foundation give?
Future Standard Foundation reported 138 grants totaling $815,449 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 135 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Future Standard Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Education (18%), Health (13%).
Who are Future Standard Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Financial Scholars Inc ($326k), Invest in Others Charitable Foundation Inc ($260k), Anti-Defamation League ($205k).
Does Future Standard Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Future Standard Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Future Standard Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
Where is Future Standard Foundation based?
Future Standard 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 424 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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