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Howell Lockhart Seiple No 1 Idt Res

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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$52kEducation$47kYouth Development$28kFood & Nutrition$27kHuman Services$18kHealth$18kCrime & Legal$14kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$671k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INC$6,500
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$6,500
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM INC$5,000
GREENER PARTNERS$5,000
CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE$2,500
DOUBLE TRELLIS FOOD INITIATIVE$2,500
WHYY INC$2,500
MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT$500
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 (FY18–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLE OF HOPE INC: $3k → 7%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 6%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $500 → 11%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%CRADLE OF HOPE INC: $3k → 7%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $500 → 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $500 → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $500 → 11%YMIC FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 6%TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 22%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$115k · 16 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
34

Total granted

$115k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+15%

Still filing today

94%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TA
    THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • GP
    GREENER PARTNERS
    2× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • WC
    WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • B
    BALLETXgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +90%

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
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
4
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
5
Play On Philly

Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.

Arts & Culture
6
The Parent-Infant Center

To support parenting by enabling young children to grow & learn in a safe, stimulating, loving environment. pic works to provide and increase access to high-quality early childhood education and school-age programs that give children…

Human Services
7
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Philadelphia Youth for Change Charter School Inc

To empower young adults (17-20 year-olds) to develop skills and connect to opportunities by fostering an environment of love, support, and respect for their whole person. students graduate high school and successfully transition to college…

Education
10
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
11
Campus Philly

Campus philly is an organization that strives to fuel economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live, and work in the greater philadelphia area as well as the entire tristate region.

Education
12
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Child Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Sunday Breakfast Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHistoric Preservation & Con…Industry Trade AssociationsPrivate Membership ClubsDog and Animal RescueCharter and Independent Sch…Music and Dance Performance…Healthcare Systems and Medi…Neighborhood Revitalization…Community Swim and Rowing C…Civil Legal AdvocacyElementary School Parent Or…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr15%17%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
14%
2,460/18,199

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

50 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. 50 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY — $10,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTYCITY YEAR INC — $10,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $8,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRACOLLEGE POSSIBLE — $5,000 · OtherDOUBLE TRELLIS FOOD INITIATIVE — $4,500 · OtherTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION — $4,000 · OtherTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC — $5,000 · OtherSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $7,000 · OtherSHARE FOOD PROGRAMCHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INC — $6,500 · OtherCHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INCJOE HAND BOXING GYM INC — $5,000 · Other+13 more — $33,000 · Other+13 moreCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $8,000 · EducationCHESTER COUNTY FUT…LOGAN HOPE — $5,000 · EducationLOGAN HOPEA STEP UP ACADEMY INC — $5,000 · EducationA STEP UP ACADEMY …THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $5,000 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMMUNI…PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $3,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLE…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $3,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE I…MIGHTY WRITERS — $3,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc — $2,500 · EducationPhiladelphia Robot…SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $2,500 · EducationSNIPES FARM AND ED…TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureTALLER PUERTORRIQ…OPERA PHILADELPHIA — $6,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHI…WHYY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCBALLETX — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBALLETXPHILADELPHIA'S MAGIC GARDENS — $2,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA'S MA…LANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $2,500 · Arts & CultureLANTERN THEATER C…TINY DYNAMITE INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTINY DYNAMITE INCLiveConnectionsorg — $2,000 · Arts & CultureLiveConnectionsor…ALLENS LANE ART CENTER — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureWESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE CO…Cradle of Hope Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesCradle of H…MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT — $3,000 · Human ServicesMOMS OFFERI…TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $2,500 · Human ServicesTRAVELERS A…FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY — $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERV…CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $2,500 · Human ServicesCANINE PART…YMIC FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesYMIC FOUNDA…Support Center for Child Advocates — $14,000 · Crime & LegalSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREENER PARTNERS — $10,000 · Environment
Other$98,500Education$37,000Arts & Culture$36,500Human Services$23,000Crime & Legal$14,000Youth Development$12,000Environment$10,000

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 budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWHYY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLETX — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOGAN HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOE HAND BOXING GYM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT — $3,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST CLUB INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArtistas y Musicos Latino Americanos — $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUCKS COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA'S MAGIC GARDENS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMIC FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINN DWELLING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSING GROUP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiveConnectionsorg — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS BOARDING HOME OF WESTERN QUARTERLY MEETING — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAREER WARDROBE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLENS LANE ART CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $1,000 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.

Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Philadelphia Foun…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Sanders Caroline J S …The William Penn Foun…Wsfs Cares FoundationHenrietta Tower Wurts…The Philadelphia Cult…Dl Saunders Lawrence …Chester County Commun…Connelly FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…
Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust UwPA56.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · The William Penn Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Gordon Charter 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 Howell Lockhart Seiple No 1 Idt Res 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
’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 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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.

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 53 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

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