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Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Fdn Pa I Inc

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.

$330k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.4MArts & Culture$1.4MEducation$1.2MScience & Tech$375kEnvironment$300kFood & Nutrition$25kRecreation & Sports$25kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
$125,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING HOSPITAL$200,000
THE JACKSON LABORATORY$125,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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.

area typical 10%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 8 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$4.1M
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +121%
  • BC
    Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +144%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SR
    STEENBLOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO DAVID STEENBLOCK
    one grant, 2019 · $155k · revenue -86% · 86% of their budget
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • NS
    NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
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
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
The Jockey Club

The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…

Recreation & Sports
8
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Reed Institute

The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the most unlike its peers is Steenblock Research Institute Co David Steenblock. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,200,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $375,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureBrandywine Conservancy & Museum …NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INCST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $600,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOLBowdoin College — $300,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $200,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…Friends of Acadia — $250,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE JACKSON LIBRARY — $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $10,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $25,000 · Other+3 more — $11,000 · OtherSTEENBLOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO DAVID STEENBLOCK — $155,000 · Science & TechFair Hill Foundation Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Health$1,575,000Arts & Culture$1,350,000Education$1,100,000Environment$275,000Other$196,000Science & Tech$155,000Philanthropy$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $1,100,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $600,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $375,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $250,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEENBLOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO DAVID STEENBLOCK — $155,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFair Hill Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWings for Success Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Fdn Pa I Inc 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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