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Independence Blue Cross Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$952k
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 FY20202024.

Health$23MEducation$15MHuman Services$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.4MEmployment$954kCommunity Improvement$395kHousing & Shelter$356kArts & Culture$165kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.7M
$70,025
Median grant
6
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania$952,316
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$530,000
HealthShare Exchange of Southeastern Pennsylvania$500,000
Delaware Valley Community Health Inc$340,000
Drexel University$305,901
Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Associa$280,000
Villanova University$262,037
Main Line Health Inc$250,000
Oshun Family Center$250,000
Greater Philadelphia Health Action$235,000
Kids Smiles Inc$220,000
Public Health Management Corporation$200,000
Widener University$195,795
Saint Joseph's University$190,070
ChesPenn Health Services Inc$190,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Corporate Partners: $50k → 17%VisionLink: $13k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $150k → 6%Family Support Line of Delaware County Inc: $50k → 10%LCH Health and Community Services: $80k → 6%Family Support Line Of Delaware County Inc: $50k → 10%LCH Health and Community Services: $75k → 6%La Comunidad Hispana Inc: $75k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $70k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $60k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $50k → 6%La Comunidad Hispana Inc: $50k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $25k → 6%La Comunidad Hispana Inc: $25k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $25k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $10k → 6%It Takes Philly (Black Doctors COVID Consortium): $125k → 7%The Arc of Philadelphia: $145k → 22%It Takes Philly: $125k → 7%The Arc of Philadelphia: $105k → 22%Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coal: $35k → 22%Augustinian Defenders Of The Rights Of The Poor: $15k → 22%Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance ASSOC Coalition: $25k → 22%Augustinian Defenders Of The Rights Of The Poor: $15k → 22%Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance ASSOC Coalition: $25k → 22%Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor: $15k → 22%Augustinian Defenders Of The Rights Of The Poor: $10k → 22%Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance ASSOC Coalition: $20k → 22%Project HOME: $75k → 22%Project HOME: $69k → 22%Project HOME: $50k → 22%Project HOME: $15k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $496k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $175k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $110k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $50k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $33k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $15k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $15k → 22%HopePHL: $15k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $15k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $15k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $15k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
GA

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 80 repeat orgs$8.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
95

Total granted

$31M
$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PH
    Public Health Management Corporation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +254%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +70%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of
    one grant, 2022 · $658k
  • PF
    PHLCOVID19 Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $491k · revenue +45%

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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

6
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

9
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

11
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esperanza Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Davids New Day. 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 backsteadyUniversity-Affiliated Organ…Mental Health and Developme…Faith-Based Community Servi…Family Philanthropic Founda…Affordable Housing Developm…Healthcare Systems and Serv…Early Childhood and Element…Education Scholarships & Me…Regional Economic & Communi…Youth Sports ProgramsHealth Research and Profess…Regional Economic Developme…Youth Development ProgramsCivic Engagement & Legal Ad…
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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr12%39%35–55yr14%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/105
the rest of the field
14%
2,936/21,389

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

99 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. 99 of the 188 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
70/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Health Management Corporation — $3,752,652 · HealthPublic Health Management CorporationTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $2,361,354 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA …KIDS SMILES INC — $940,000 · HealthKIDS SMILES INCCHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC — $765,000 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC — $747,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $599,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN — $575,000 · Health+27 more — $6,011,116 · Health+27 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,617,186 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PE…DREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,407,672 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $915,668 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commo…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $800,705 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY — $656,463 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $538,162 · EducationWIDENER UNIVERSITY — $515,344 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $450,300 · EducationGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY — $443,978 · EducationNEUMANN UNIVERSITY — $434,945 · Education+18 more — $2,784,102 · Education+18 moreDELAWARE VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $1,040,000 · OtherDELAWARE VALLEY COMMUNITY…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of — $657,708 · OtherTemple University - Of Th…Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc — $540,000 · OtherGreater Philadelphia Heal…MAZZONI CENTER — $537,625 · OtherMAZZONI CENTERPHLCOVID19 Fund — $500,000 · OtherTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $462,500 · Other+99 more — $6,048,549 · Other+99 moreResources for Human Development Inc — $1,180,285 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community Services — $705,580 · Human ServicesThe Arc Of Philadelphia — $250,104 · Human ServicesIT TAKES PHILLY — $250,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME — $226,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $105,000 · Human Services+6 more — $317,023 · Human ServicesSocial Impact Fund — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $449,300 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR GIRARD COLLEGE — $225,000 · PhilanthropyST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $115,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $36,890 · PhilanthropyDAUPHIN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $355,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA WORKS INC — $150,000 · Employment
Health$15,751,622Education$12,564,525Other$9,786,382Human Services$3,033,992Philanthropy$2,176,190Community Improvement$355,000Employment$150,000

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 budgetPublic Health Management Corporation — $3,752,652 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,617,186 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $2,361,354 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,407,672 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc — $1,180,285 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $1,040,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSocial Impact Fund — $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetKIDS SMILES INC — $940,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $915,668 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $800,705 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC — $765,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC — $747,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services — $705,580 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY — $656,463 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $599,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $575,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Health Action Inc — $540,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $538,162 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER — $537,625 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY — $515,344 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHSHARE EXCHANGE OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOSHUN FAMILY CENTER — $500,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $491,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $462,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSPECTRUM HEALTH SERVICES INC — $451,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $450,300 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA — $449,300 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY — $443,978 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY — $434,945 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $399,308 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY MEDICAL CENTER — $385,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC — $369,075 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC — $365,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $355,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPUENTES DE SALUD — $341,500 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetHARCUM COLLEGE — $311,982 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FIGHT — $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF RECOVERY IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC — $298,056 over 3y, 26% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $296,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY — $266,079 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Arc Of Philadelphia — $250,104 over 2y, 22% of budgetIT TAKES PHILLY — $250,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMAIN LINE HEALTH INC — $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Nurse-Led Care Consortium — $240,433 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVNA - COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $231,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $226,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR GIRARD COLLEGE — $225,000 over 2y, 20% 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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA81× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Independence Blue Cross 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report 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, 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Independence Blue Cross Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Independence Blue Cross Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 188 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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