· Private foundation
Ign Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| T&E CARE | $20,000 |
| MERCY CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCH | $20,000 |
| A BABYS BREATH | $20,000 |
| MOTHERS HOME | $20,000 |
| NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| FIRST STATE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PHILIP NERI | $10,000 |
| GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST DENIS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 53 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
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 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 PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MERLIN'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 Amigos de Jesus ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ign Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ign Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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