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Harriet Fredericks Foundation-Cash

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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$210kHealth$162kArts & Culture$95kEmployment$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$6,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEARNING ALLY$16,000
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
MAIN LINE ART CENTER$7,000
THE SEEING EYE$6,500
HOPE SPRINGS EQUESTRIAN$5,000
ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND$3,500
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 6%LEARNING ALLY: $16k → 11%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 6%LEARNING ALLY: $15k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $15k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $13k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $10k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $9k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $6k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $6k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%VISIONLINK: $7k → 22%VISIONLINK: $7k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 22%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$563k · 13 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$563k
$15k

Still filing today

77%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthEmploymentOther

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

  • Learning Ally Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +106%
  • OS
    OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +36%
  • ML
    Main Line Art Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MC
    MONTGOMERY CO ASSOC FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • RG
    ROYER GREAVES SCHOOL THE BLIND
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Blindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc

BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…

Health
2
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
3
The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans Inc

To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.

Health
4
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc

Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.

5
Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania

Assist individuals who are blind and visually impaired to flourish within our communities and prevent blindness.

Health
6
Berks County Association ft Blind Inc Dba Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty

To Enrich the Lives of Visually Impaired Persons and their Caregivers while providing Preventative Services and Education.

Health
7
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
8
Vision Benefits of America Inc

Vision benefits of america fosters the conservation of human eyesight by making available a highly specialized vision service plan for the aid, comfort and relief of human vision problems, and provides a prepayment plan whereby individuals…

9
Leader Dogs for the Blind

Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.

Human Services
10
New Vision for Independence Inc

New vision for independence, inc. (new vision) is a nationally accredited 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization providing rehabilitation, community education, and support services for people with low vision or blindness, and their families to…

Human Services
11
In-Sight

In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.

Human Services
12
Center for Blind & Visually Impaired

Assists and teaches the visually impaired community of delaware county to live safely and independently in their homes and community. the organization provides services to those with reduced vision in delaware and chester counties by…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is VisionLink and the most unlike its peers is Main Line Art Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $58,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipientROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND — $37,950 · OtherROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLINDIndividual grant recipient — $36,425 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $25,450 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FDTN — $16,500 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FDTNMONTGOMERY COUNTY ASSOC FOR BLIND — $16,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY ASSOC FOR BLINDMONTGOMERY CO ASSOC FOR THE BLIND — $9,500 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherLearning Ally Inc — $93,425 · Human ServicesLearning Ally IncVisionLink — $48,550 · Human ServicesVisionLinkTHE SEEING EYE INC — $44,450 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $73,450 · EducationOVERBROOK SCHO…Main Line Art Center — $53,525 · Arts & CultureMain Line …HOPE SPRINGS EQUESTRIAN THERAPY INC — $43,725 · HealthBESTWORK INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC — $15,000 · Employment
Other$205,750Human Services$186,425Education$73,450Arts & Culture$53,525Health$43,725Employment$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLearning Ally Inc — $93,425 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $73,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Art Center — $53,525 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetVisionLink — $48,550 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $44,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SPRINGS EQUESTRIAN THERAPY INC — $43,725 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND — $37,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $25,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBESTWORK INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 Learning Ally Inc
  • Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds Main Line Art Center
  • Who funds VisionLink
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds HOPE SPRINGS EQUESTRIAN THERAPY INC
  • Who funds ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY ASSOC FOR BLIND
  • Who funds BESTWORK INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND 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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Harriet Fredericks Foundation-Cash 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Bestwork Industries for the Blind Inc100% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Harriet Fredericks Foundation-Cash?

Find your warmest path to Harriet Fredericks Foundation-Cash 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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