· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $3,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNew Hope Arts Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +101%
Fishermans Mark8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +306%- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kerr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kerr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- Riverside Symphonia Inc: 17% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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