· Private foundation
Hood Esther Gowen Uw
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| DEPAUL USA INC | $40,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE | $40,000 |
| BROAD STREET MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| HOPEPHL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HAHOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT3× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +26%
- BPBETHESDA PROJECT2× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +12%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY2× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SVC GREATER Pone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MMENZFITgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +244%
- ECEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES ECSone grant, 2023 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Homeless
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…
Offer those experiencing homelessness stable emergency shelter, access to housing programs, and the resources for them to achieve their full potential.
1260 housing development corporation is a not-for-profit corporation established for the purpose of developing, acquiring, financing, and managing low-income permanent housing for individuals with behavioral health issues, as well as…
To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.
Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…
Housing the homeless
A living legacy of john wanamaker, philly house's mission is to open their doors every day with a welcoming spirit of christian compassion, walking alongside the homeless, hungry, and hurting of philadelphia so that they may experience the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda Project and the most unlike its peers is Menzfit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MENZFIT ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEABILITY ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NUEVA ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Beatty Helen D Groome Uw · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Elmer R Deaver Foundation Idt · Van Ameringen Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation
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 Hood Esther Gowen Uw 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.
- Nueva Esperanza Inc — 1% of income from government
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.