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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Oshun Family Center$250,000
Main Line Health Inc$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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%La Comunidad Hispana Inc: $50k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $50k → 6%La Comunidad Hispana Inc: $25k → 6%LCH Health and Community Services: $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%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: $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: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development Inc: $60k → 22%Resources for Human Development: $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%HopePHL: $15k → 22%Face to Face Inc: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

+28%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esperanza Health Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 188 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
71/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ImprovementPlease Touch Museum: $150,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$15,751,622Education$12,564,525Other$9,786,382Human Services$3,033,992Philanthropy$2,176,190Community Improvement$355,000Arts & Culture$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…W W Smith Charitable …Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The William Penn Foun…Independence Foundati…The Leo and Peggy Pie…The Barra Foundation …AccessmattersHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Pew Charitable Tr…Td Charitable Foundat…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Independence Blue Cross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Independence Blue Cross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 188 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home