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· Private foundation

J Leon Lockard

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$52kHuman Services$42kFood & Nutrition$31kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$20kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$18kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$628k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT REFIT$10,000
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$5,138
CORKRAN SCHOOL INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $7k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $5k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $3k → 7%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $8k → 22%Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $8k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMENS NETWORK: $5k → 22%Garces Family Foundation: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Family Promise of Philadelphia

To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.

Human Services
2
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
3
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
4
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
5
Project Home

The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…

Human Services
6
The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership

The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership is a coalition of community partnerships sharing the common goal of preventing substance abuse Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the long term throughout the City.

Health
7
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

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8
Together for West Philadelphia

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.

Unclassified
9
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
10
Educating Communities for Parenting Inc

Using the parent-child model ecp increases the potential for developing life-long positive relationship.

Human Services
11
Homeless Advocacy Project

To provide free civil legal services and advocacy to reduce the frequency and duration of homelessness in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
12
Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc

To provide quality comprehensive primary medical, dental, behavioral health and child care services using a fiscally responsible approach to meet the needs of a diverse population regardless of ability to pay

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Children's Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Gentle Gratitude. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr14%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
3,654/28,540

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $17,500 · OtherLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $11,835 · OtherYORK COUNTY FOOD BANKPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $9,950 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRAHOPECAM INC — $7,500 · OtherHOPECAM INCST JAMES SCHOOL — $7,500 · OtherST JAMES SCHOOLASSOC FOR ADULTS WITH DEV DISABILITIES — $5,802 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,138 · OtherCONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES — $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY CITY ARTS LEAGUE INC — $5,000 · OtherPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 · OtherREESE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $5,500 · OtherANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · OtherProject Refit — $10,000 · OtherProject RefitGREENER PARTNERS — $10,000 · OtherGREENER PARTNERSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,301 · Other+3 more — $7,182 · Other+3 moreCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY — $7,500 · Human ServicesCASA OF PHILADEL…FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA — $7,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE M…Esperanza Immigration Legal Services — $7,500 · Human ServicesEsperanza Immigr…JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $6,513 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AG…CONNECTEDLY — $5,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesGARCES FAMILY FO…ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesONE HOUSE AT A T…BUILDING 21 — $10,000 · EducationBUILDING 21BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $5,820 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF…HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION — $5,000 · EducationHOPE PARTNERSHI…Corkran School Inc — $5,000 · EducationCorkran School …Hunting Park Christian Academy — $4,987 · EducationHunting Park Ch…MIGHTY WRITERS — $4,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSBoricuactivated — $4,000 · EducationBoricuactivatedPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER'S PLACE — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentStarfinder Foundation — $10,062 · PhilanthropyGENTLE GRATITUDE — $9,500 · PhilanthropyHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $15,000 · ReligionSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$133,208Human Services$41,513Education$38,807Youth Development$20,000Philanthropy$19,562Religion$15,000Community Improvement$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $11,835 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStarfinder Foundation — $10,062 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — $9,950 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENTLE GRATITUDE — $9,500 over 1y, 54% of budgetCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPECAM INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEsperanza Immigration Legal Services — $7,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $6,513 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $5,820 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,301 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTION TRAINING SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY ARTS LEAGUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONNECTEDLY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETER'S PLACE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHunting Park Christian Academy — $4,987 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoricuactivated — $4,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC — $3,182 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Patricia Kind Fam…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The William Penn Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Connelly FoundationClaneil Foundation IncClarence a Rowell #2Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA44.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The William Penn Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Clarence a Rowell #2 · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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 J Leon Lockard 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Project Refit — 13% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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