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Little Tower 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 $10k31 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARKS COLORECTAL SURGICAL FOUNDATION | $33,500 |
| NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $29,000 |
| FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOLY SAVIOUR CHURCH | $10,000 |
| AIM ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT EAST | $5,000 |
| THEATRE HORIZON | $5,000 |
| MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CECIL & GRACE BEAN SOUP KITCHEN INC | $5,000 |
| PATRICIAN SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEADOWOOD | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY- NORRISTOWN CORPS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $5,000 |
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, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +201%
- GHGATEWAY HOUSING GROUP9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +163%
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNK9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- EMEINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER MONTGOMERY COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $9k
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
- AEALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORKone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
Misericordia university, a catholic liberal arts institution established in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, fosters intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and respect for persons in an environment where all are welcome.values…
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Marian manor is part of the larger vincentian collaborative system ministries, whose mission statement is: "compelled by the love of christ, vincentian collaborative system nurtures and sustains a ministry of compassionate care that…
Individuals with developmental disabilities will live within a community that sustains them and benefits from their participation. mainstay life services will be regarded as the region's provider of choice for individuals and families…
To provide affordable, accessible and safe housing for people with physical disabilities where they enjoy an environment of independence and mobility, achieve their goals and live life to the fullest.
The organization was formed to serve all functioning levels of individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities who reside primarily in the philadelphia metropolitan area. services provided include residential, outpatient and adult…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of central pa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The mission of main line hospitals, inc. is to provide a comprehensive range of safe, high quality health services, complemented by educational and research activities that meet healthcare needs and improve the quality of life in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Loss and Bereavement and the most unlike its peers is Lisas Army Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
39 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. 39 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 NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARKS COLORECTAL SURGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSING GROUP ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds THEATRE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CECIL AND GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds A Babys Breath ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Norristown Hospitality Center ↗
- Who funds PATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN ↗
- Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds SUPERKIDS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEDWIG HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds The Lamb Foundation ↗
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: Genuardi Family Foundation · Jaymar Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · Quest for the Best · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Phillies Charities 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 Little Tower 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.
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.