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Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$943kHealth$133kHuman Services$98kPhilanthropy$30kRecreation & Sports$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kCommunity Improvement$15kCrime & Legal$7k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$5,000
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$5,000
TOWSON UNIVERSITY$5,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
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.

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%
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.

04Its field

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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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
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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
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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
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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…

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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
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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Widener University; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
58/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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 budgetRSVP Volunteers: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton 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 budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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