· Private foundation
G Fred & Sylvia Dibona Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of G FRED & SYLVIA DIBONA FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAF GIVING 360THE DIBONA FAMILY FUND | $752,328 |
| DAF GIVING 360LOBLEY CHARITABLE FUND | $752,328 |
| SAINT COLEMAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| WALDRON MERCY ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| FRED'S FOOTSTEPS | $24,100 |
| CB COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $21,500 |
| MAGEE REHAB HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| VETRI COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $8,500 |
| MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| GIFT OF LIFE HOWIE'S HOUSE | $500 |
| SAINT JOHN VIANNEY PARISH | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- VFVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +2%
- TBTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +16%
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GFG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +41%
- LBLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCERone grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue 0%
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL - KEITH FLAHERTY FDone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 48 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 60 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds G FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds Please Touch Museum ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds Rock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main
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 G Fred & Sylvia Dibona Family 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 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.