· Private foundation
Kerr Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE SCHOOL (MICHAEL TOOHEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND) | $25,000 |
| BUCKINGHAM FRIENDS SCHOOL | $22,000 |
| NEW HOPE ARTS | $9,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF SOUTH LAKE COUNTY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $5,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $5,000 |
| LIGHT THE MINDS | $5,000 |
| FISHERMAN'S MARK | $5,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $5,000 |
| GET BENT FRIENDS | $4,000 |
| AMERICARES | $3,000 |
| MERCER STREET FRIENDS | $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 (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- NHNew Hope Arts Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +101%
Fishermans Mark8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +188%- FAFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center5× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +840%
Funded once
- BCBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- ARAffect Real Change Incone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -87%
RAZOM INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -65%
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.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
To provide free civil legal services and advocacy to reduce the frequency and duration of homelessness in philadelphia.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
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.
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.
Amistad law project's mission is to fight for the human rights of people in our community by providing free and low-cost legal services to philadelphians and those incarcerated in pennsylvania's prisons. additionally, we advocate for laws…
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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance and the most unlike its peers is Light the Minds Inc. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 73 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 New Hope Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SYMPHONIA INC ↗
- Who funds Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds LIGHT THE MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN LOWER MERION INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE STRATH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity of Bucks County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN MUSEUM AND THEATRE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
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: Bbla Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · Union Benevolent Association · Independence Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc
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 Kerr Family 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.
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Riverside Symphonia Inc — 17% of income from government
- Americares 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.
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