· Private foundation
Hassel 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| JEVS HUMAN SERVICES | $15,000 |
| WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND | $15,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $15,000 |
| MATERNITY CARE COALITION | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA BALLET LOUISE REED CENTER FOR DANCE | $12,500 |
| WISTAR INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS | $12,500 |
| MISSION FIRST HOUSING | $12,500 |
| WEST SIDE CENTER OF COMMUNITY LIFE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,400 |
| MANNA | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Hassel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 77%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMaternity Care Coalition6× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +95%
- JHJEVS HUMAN SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +49%
- TWTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +45%
Funded once
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -15%- TPTHE PARKINSON COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -26%
- AAASTRAL ARTISTIC SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds ASTRAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE PARKINSON COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DRUEDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MENTOR FOR PHILLY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · Philabundance · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hassel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hassel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Rider University: 1% of income from government
- Bentley University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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