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Independence Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
234
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$117k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.4MCrime & Legal$6.4MHealth$3.9MHuman Services$3.6MHousing & Shelter$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.6MEducation$1.4MCivil Rights$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 234 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k106 grants · $474k
  • $10k–50k112 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $5.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25k → 8%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $50k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $50k → 22%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $26k → 6%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $25k → 22%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $25k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $25k → 6%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $25k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $25k → 6%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25k → 6%WOMENS CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $35k → 7%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $51k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $51k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $75k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $75k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $75k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $75k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $75k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $33k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $27k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $25k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $25k → 22%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC: $50k → 22%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC: $50k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $180k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $50k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $50k → 22%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $50k → 22%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%LA COMMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $50k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $45k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $26k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $25k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $75k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $38k → 22%HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION SERVICE OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $84k → 22%HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION SERVICE OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $40k → 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

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 247 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

247
119

Total granted

$29M
$885k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +130%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
  • PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $874k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PH
    Public Health Management Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $98k · revenue +391%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +203%
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 Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
3
Public Trust

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
5
Artphilly

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
7
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
8
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
9
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
11
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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12
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

278 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. 278 of the 384 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
81
Early backer (in before they grew)
269/278
Grantees still filing
193/278
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $873,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS A…ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $466,500 · Arts & CultureARDEN THEATRE COMPANYOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $424,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIAFRINGEARTS: $408,000 · Arts & CultureFRINGEARTSTHE WILMA THEATER: $258,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $254,500 · Arts & Culture+50 more: $3,755,500 · Arts & Culture+50 moreCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,513,447 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE…REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES: $544,838 · Crime & LegalREGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL …LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $525,994 · Crime & LegalLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DI…FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC: $476,926 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS …LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $437,976 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTE…PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION: $401,504 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSI…THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $390,236 · Crime & LegalTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW…Support Center for Child Advocates: $320,616 · Crime & LegalPENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT: $311,102 · Crime & LegalSENIORLAW CENTER: $244,076 · Crime & LegalPENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS: $215,000 · Crime & Legal+9 more: $646,000 · Crime & Legal+9 morePROJECT HOME: $1,135,965 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMEHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $439,744 · Human ServicesHIAS and Council Migr…LCH Health and Community Services: $437,000 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Commun…BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $434,155 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRYNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $392,378 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE…Resources for Human Development Inc: $233,500 · Human ServicesHOPEPHL: $227,452 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $221,645 · Human ServicesChildren First PA: $220,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $201,000 · Human Services+26 more: $1,504,500 · Human Services+26 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $693,500 · HealthPLANNED PAR…PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $460,000 · HealthPENNSYLVANI…PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT: $381,083 · HealthPENNSYLVANI…The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia: $285,000 · HealthThe Visitin…PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $200,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $190,000 · HealthCONGRESO DE…INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC: $123,252 · HealthAIDS LAW PROJECT OF PENNSYLVANIA: $101,000 · HealthPUENTES DE SALUD: $100,000 · HealthPublic Health Management Corporation: $97,588 · Health+5 more: $230,000 · Health+5 moreCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY: $325,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADVOCACY …FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $264,000 · OtherPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC: $210,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $191,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $474,392 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBER…WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $278,750 · OtherWOMEN'S LAW PROJECTCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21: $220,000 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $317,000 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY O…STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $235,000 · OtherEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $305,500 · OtherEisenhower Exchange …+47 more: $2,258,551 · Other+47 morePhilabundance: $434,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $402,204 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $315,520 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUST: $170,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $75,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $75,000 · Food & NutritionEducation Law Center - PA: $672,468 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $274,120 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,000 · Education+4 more: $124,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$6,440,500Crime & Legal$6,027,715Human Services$5,447,339Health$2,861,423Other$5,079,193Food & Nutrition$1,471,724Education$1,255,588

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,513,447 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $1,135,965 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $873,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $693,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $672,468 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetREGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES: $544,838 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $525,994 over 8y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC: $476,926 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $474,392 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $466,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $460,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $439,744 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $437,976 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $437,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $434,155 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetPhilabundance: $434,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $424,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFRINGEARTS: $408,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $402,204 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION: $401,504 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $392,378 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $390,236 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT: $381,083 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY: $325,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $320,616 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $317,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $315,520 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT: $311,102 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $305,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia: $285,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $278,750 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $274,120 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $264,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER: $258,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $254,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $244,076 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $235,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc: $233,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEPHL: $227,452 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $221,645 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21: $220,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetChildren First PA: $220,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS: $215,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC: $210,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $201,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $200,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $199,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $191,000 over 8y, 6.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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…The William Penn Foun…The Barra Foundation …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Philadelphia Cult…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…United Way of Greater…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Patricia Kind Fam…Connelly FoundationWyncote FoundationThe Pew Charitable Tr…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA188.4× affinity159 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Independence Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
84report 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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Find your warmest path to Independence 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 384 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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