· Private foundation
Isonoma Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH PHILLY FOOD CO-OP | $31,471 |
| THE YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM | $29,737 |
| AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $25,000 |
| URBED | $25,000 |
| URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION7× · 2018–2024 · $148k · revenue +112%
URBED7× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue +18% · 40% of their budget- RCROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +183%
Funded once
PUENTES DE SALUDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +95%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- BABREAD AND ROSESone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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.
Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds URBED ↗
- Who funds PUENTES DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The William Penn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Isonoma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isonoma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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