· Private foundation
Irene D Cunningham W
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE PROJECT OF CHESTER C | $5,000 |
| MURPHYS GIVING MARKET | $5,000 |
| PROMISE HOUSE | $3,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +96% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SCSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%
- CWCOMMUNITY WAREHOUSE PROJECT OF CHESTER COUNTY2× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +96%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE2× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TWTOGETHER WE CAN - PAone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CECHESTER EASTSIDE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +44%
- SFSHARE FOOD PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.
Friend inc community services is a multi-services social agency that supports the well-being of those in need and is committed to strengthening the lives of families and individuals living th northeastern berks county.
Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The west chester food cupboard is one of the largest hunger relief agencies in chester county. we are the primary source of food assistance for low- income residents living in and around the west chester area school district. west chester…
To provide nutritious meals and personal interaction to homebound adults living in chester county to help them live independently in their own homes.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of Chester County and the most unlike its peers is The Career Wardrobe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 24 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
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 SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE PROJECT OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CHESTER EASTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CAREER WARDROBE ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS BOARDING HOME OF WESTERN QUARTERLY MEETING ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc ↗
- Who funds MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT ↗
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 · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Chester County Community Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Howell Lockhart Seiple No 1 Idt Res · The Community's Foundation · Genuardi Family 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 Irene D Cunningham W 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.
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.