Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Private foundation

Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$561kHuman Services$138kHealth$79kPhilanthropy$30kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$443k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
$9,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$42,000
MIGHTY WRITERS$25,000
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY$18,000
RSVP$15,000
IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY$11,000
ELON UNIVERSITY$9,000
TOWSON UNIVERSITY$5,000
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$5,000
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$5,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$5,000
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 (FY17–23, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $4k → 6%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $13k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $4k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $15k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $14k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $13k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $8k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $3k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $2k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $14k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $13k → 6%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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$901k · 43 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
66

Total granted

$901k
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +44%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +5%
  • IU
    IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -21%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMS
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
  • Y
    YOUNGMOMS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +11%

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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
6
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
10
Delaware Valley University

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…

—
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

—

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

Your grantees are a median of 75 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr17%63%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%19%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr17%44%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,084

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 116 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
59/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $143,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $49,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of …IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY — $47,600 · EducationIMMACULATA UNIVERSITYMIGHTY WRITERS — $40,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $21,200 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $20,700 · Education+43 more — $238,550 · Education+43 moreWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY — $68,350 · OtherWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITYPENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $62,400 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $18,900 · OtherSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMS — $18,000 · OtherRSVP Volunteers — $15,000 · Other+49 more — $260,600 · Other+49 moreLCH Health and Community Services — $40,000 · Human ServicesLCH Health a…OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesOXFORD AREA …FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY — $19,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVI…SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION — $16,133 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHE…YOUNGMOMS — $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMSKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $8,000 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA…Domestic Violence Center of Chester County — $6,500 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $36,200 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $30,000 · HealthNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER — $13,100 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $30,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University — $11,605 · Recreation & Sports
Education$560,950Other$443,250Human Services$137,733Health$79,300Philanthropy$30,000Recreation & Sports$11,605

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $143,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $49,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY — $47,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services — $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $36,200 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC — $27,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $21,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $20,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY — $19,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $17,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION — $16,133 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGMOMS — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER — $13,100 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $12,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $11,605 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $9,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Center of Chester County — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $6,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY — $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $4,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Chester County Commun…United Way of Souther…United Way of Chester…The Philadelphia Foun…W W Smith Charitable …The Gordon Charter Fo…The Dansko Foundation…Chester County Food B…Genuardi Family Found…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Fund for Women an…Applestone Foundation…
Chester County Community FoundationPA32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester County · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Chester County Food Bank · Genuardi Family Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · Applestone Foundation-Ima

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 Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • Delaware State University — 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Rider University — 1% of income from government
  • Stevenson University — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County?

Find your warmest path to Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County 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 116 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines