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Hortulanus Foundation Trust Dtd 6/16/2022

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222023.

Education$77kReligion$7kHealth$4kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2kCivil Rights$2kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOLARSHI$25,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 6%CAMP ONAS: $5k → 6%WISSAHICKON VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 → 7%PHILABUNDANCE: $1k → 22%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ACLU: $1k → 17%TOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 6%CAMP ONAS: $2k → 6%PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOLARSHI: $25k → 7%FRIENDS REHABILITATION PROGRAM INC: $1k → 22%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOLARSHI: $25k → 7%WRTI: $500 → 22%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONT: $1k → 7%FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION: $1k → 22%MANNA ON MAIN STREET: $1k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $1k → 22%LASP: $1k → 7%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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$82k · 4 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$82k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-2%

Still filing today

0%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • PM
    PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -16%
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k
  • TM
    TOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -10%
  • FR
    FRIENDS REHABILITATION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -17%
  • A
    ACLU
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
4
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

5
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
6
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Penn Medicine-Pma

Penn medicine-pma is organized and operated to improve the quality and efficiency of health care by providing charitable primary, as well as specialty, health care services to the community.

Health
9
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
10
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
12
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Council On Education and the most unlike its peers is Toby Merrill Scholarship Fund. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOLUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONTOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 · OtherTOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+5 more — $5,000 · Other+5 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $4,000 · HealthFRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $1,000 · EducationWISSAHICKON VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $500 · EducationFRIENDS REHABILITATION PROGRAM INC — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterPhilabundance — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$87,000Health$4,000Education$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOBY MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS REHABILITATION PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISSAHICKON VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Hortulanus Foundation Trust Dtd 6/16/2022 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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