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Independence Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k106 grants · $474k
- $10k–50k112 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $117,001 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $91,343 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA | $89,500 |
| HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION SERVICE OF PHILADELPHIA INC | $84,344 |
| PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC | $76,155 |
| PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES | $76,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $75,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $67,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA | $63,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $53,000 |
| LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $51,000 |
| PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| PUENTES DE SALUD | $50,000 |
| OPERA PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
247 repeat relationships — 188 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +130%- PHPROJECT HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $874k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- PHPublic Health Management Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $98k · revenue +391%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TFTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +203%
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Camp Shohola Scholarship Fund. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
278 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. 278 of the 384 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
- Who funds The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
- Who funds Resources for Human Development Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts
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 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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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