How much does LL Charitable Foundation give?

LL Charitable Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $490,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does LL Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (18%).

Who are LL Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Challenge Program Inc ($106k), Ysc Academy ($105k), Opera Philadelphia ($90k).

Does LL Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does LL Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as LL Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Neubauer Family Foundation.

Where is LL Charitable Foundation based?

LL Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

LL Charitable Foundation

LL Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

LL Charitable 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.

$490k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$358kArts & Culture$308kYouth Development$307kFood & Nutrition$286kEnvironment$162kRecreation & Sports$95kHealth$52kHuman Services$51kOther$0

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $62k
$10k–50k8 grants · $143k
$50k–250k4 grants · $285k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SWAG	$100,000
Rodale Institute	$75,000
The Challenge Program	$60,000
Philadelphia Soccer 2026	$50,000
Read Global	$35,000
Elevate 215	$25,000
Philadelphia Orchard Project	$25,000
YSC Academy	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$13,000
Kimmel Center	$10,000
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts	$10,000
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation	$10,000
Taos Sports Association	$9,000
Starfinder Foundation	$8,000
March of Dimes	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 34 repeat orgs$482k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+29%

Still filing today

65%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

YA
YSC ACADEMY
7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +71%
RI
Rodale Institute
2× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +81%
PO
PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +437%

Funded once

FF
Frontline Foods
one grant, 2020 · $100k
PA
PA Assoc for Sustainable Agriculture
one grant, 2018 · $100k
SE
Silverback Educational Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $50k

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.

04Its field

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 Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement

Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education

Delaware Valley University

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…

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The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment

Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement

The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education

Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture

Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech

Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.

Community Improvement

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Don't Bully Us Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 67 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

25/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$856,685Education$303,500Arts & Culture$270,500Environment$103,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Human Services$56,500Recreation & Sports$52,000

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.

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Future Standard Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation · Le Vine Family Foundation · The Sylvia W and Randle M Kauders Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization LL Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LL Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home