· Private foundation
Ign Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE | $40,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY | $30,000 |
| MERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCH | $20,000 |
| T&E CARE | $20,000 |
| A BABYS BREATH | $20,000 |
| MOTHERS HOME | $20,000 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| FIRST STATE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST PHILIP NERI | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- MCMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT8× · 2018–2025 · $385k · revenue +62%
- ABA Babys Breath7× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +95%
- MHMOTHERS' HOME7× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- FTFACE TO FACE INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -25%
- LSLUTHERAN SETTLEMENT HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $20k
- CMCITYTEAM MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -10%
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.
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…
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…
Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Summary
The mission of princeton healthcare system is to provide exceptional, compassionate care to enhance the health and wellness of our patients, their families, and our community. princeton healthcare system provides inpatient and outpatient…
Bethesda's vision is to fulfill the social, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral health needs of children, families, and individuals by providing an effective and efficient continuum of care in a quality focused environment.
The children's home of pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent, non-profit licensed organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the…
To nurture families with children who are struggling against economic and environmental odds, giving them the critical resources, life skills and supportive partnerships to create stronger families and raise children with hope for a…
To ensure that those impacted by poverty have the skills and resources to achieve their full potential.
My sisters place is committed to ending homelessness by empowering women, families, and others in greater hartford to achieve independence and stability in their community by providing housing and supportive services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 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.
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 MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds A Babys Breath ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' HOME ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERLIN'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSED SARNELLI COMMUNITYINC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds RADNOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Project Sweet Peas ↗
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: Connelly Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Patriarch Family Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Ign Foundation 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.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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