· Private foundation
Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k90 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNTOS | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN AIDS NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE (MANNA) | $5,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $5,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| BROAD STREET LOVE | $5,000 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT (YEAH INC) | $5,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED | $5,000 |
| CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $4,000 |
| THE PRINT CENTER | $3,000 |
| CENTER IN THE PARK | $3,000 |
| ZIA INCORPORATED | $3,000 |
| FOOD MOXIE | $3,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $3,000 |
| AWBURY ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $291k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
152 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 28 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Philabundance4× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +83%- CHCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS6× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +92%
- MAMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE4× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- MAMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTone grant, 2021 · $13k
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +178%
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -100%
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.
Education, arts and culture.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.
To help young people and their families enhance their innate ability to think flexibly and meet challenges creatively.
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors
Students wrote produced and performed an original musical Bridges The musical follows students as they navigate their racial identities address issues of race at their suburban school and challenge a music education system in need of…
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
How this is measured
213 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. 213 of the 268 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds JUNTOS ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds CULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NEED IN DEED ↗
- Who funds Asian Arts Initiative ↗
- Who funds ARTZ PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA VIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRINT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Resources Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds INN DWELLING INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED ↗
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 · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Union Benevolent Association · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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