Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $70,025
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $952,316
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 93
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $131M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Independence Blue Cross Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $609k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 69 | $7.7M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $8.2M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $10.0M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $7.4M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health Management Corporation | $3,752,652 | 5 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation | $2,361,354 | 3 | 0% |
| Drexel University | $1,407,672 | 5 | 0% |
| Resources for Human Development Inc | $1,180,285 | 4 | 0% |
| Delaware Valley Community Health Inc | $1,040,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kids Smiles Inc | $940,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $915,668 | 3 | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $800,705 | 4 | 0% |
| Chespenn Health Services Inc | $765,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Esperanza Health Center Inc | $747,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Independence Blue Cross Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · Accessmatters · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Td Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Independence Blue Cross Foundation with peer funders
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About Independence Blue Cross Foundation
- How much does Independence Blue Cross Foundation give?
- Independence Blue Cross Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $8,657,710 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 93 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Independence Blue Cross Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (34%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Independence Blue Cross Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Public Health Management Corporation ($3.8M), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation ($2.4M), Drexel University ($1.4M).
- Does Independence Blue Cross Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Independence Blue Cross Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Independence Blue Cross Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, W W Smith Charitable Trust.
- Where is Independence Blue Cross Foundation based?
- Independence Blue Cross Foundation is based in PA.
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