· Private foundation
Justamere Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $182k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $805k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $500,000 |
| VALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION | $304,820 |
| THE HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $101,247 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY IU 24 | $90,000 |
| UWCHLAN AMBULANCE CORPS INC | $88,000 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUN | $86,905 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $75,000 |
| WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $66,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION | $60,331 |
| GOOD FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHESTER COUNTY INC | $60,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIAS STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOU | $60,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Justamere Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 32 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k 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
- WCWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $615k · revenue +20%
- DCDELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $561k · revenue +22%
- MEMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO3× · 2022–2024 · $464k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- LCLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $276k · revenue -3%
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY CAREER & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $155k · revenue +26% · 29% of their budget
- HMHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Campus philly is an organization that strives to fuel economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live, and work in the greater philadelphia area as well as the entire tristate region.
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
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…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.
To provide programs that will enable low income individuals to attain the necessary skills, knowledge, and motivation needed to become self-sufficient.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Star of Chester County and the most unlike its peers is Books Are Treasure. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 161 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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UWCHLAN AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CAREER & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chester County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOOD FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds North Montco Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds YMIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTH INC ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT WILLIAMSON ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Wings for Success Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN ↗
- Who funds THE PARKESBURG POINT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Chester County Inc · Connelly Foundation · Quest for the Best · The Fund for Women and Girls · Claneil Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · 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 Justamere 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
- Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Bayada Home Health Care Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% 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.