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Methodist Hospital Foundation

The METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ("foundation") is a public charity which serves as the fund-raising arm of methodist hospital.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$290kEducation$225kEnvironment$89kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC$40,000
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE$15,000
AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR$10,000
FRIENDS OF FDR PARK$10,000
CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA$10,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
DISCOVERY PATHWAYS$10,000
KHMER PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURE$10,000
CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$10,000
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILA: $15k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $25k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $15k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $15k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $10k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILA: $15k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $10k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILA: $10k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $10k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $10k → 22%AUGUSTINIAN DEF OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: $10k → 22%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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$1.9M
$0

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $780k · revenue +71%
  • KU
    KENNEDY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $442k · revenue +65%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +45%

Funded once

    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
    Philadelphia University

    The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

    Education
    2
    Jefferson Health - Northeast

    To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…

    Health
    3
    Philadelphia Health Partnership
    Health
    4
    Abington Memorial Hospital

    The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…

    Health
    5
    Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Group Letter Ruling

    Aehn group is licensed to operate 721 acute care beds. tertiary care is provided through three locations, its main campus in north philadelphia, its campus at montgomery county and at elkins park (until june 30, 2023). in addition, its…

    6
    Lansdale Hospital

    The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…

    Health
    7
    The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents

    The magee memorial hospital for convalescents' mission is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. please refer to schedule o for the…

    Health
    8
    Temple University Hospital Inc

    See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

    Health
    9
    Temple University Health System Inc

    Our mission is to provide access to high quality health care to the community and academic setting.

    Education
    10
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    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,…

    Health
    11
    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

    The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

    Education
    12
    Chh Community Health

    The mission of CHH Community Health is to improve community wellness, strengthen access to healthcare, and further clinical education by facilitating student and resident teaching and hands-on clinical experiences.

    Health

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor. 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

    11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    10/11
    Grantees still filing
    8/11
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $780,424 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INCKENNEDY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INC — $441,571 · HealthKENNEDY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INCTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $175,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFER…CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SC…AUGUSTINIAN DEFENDERS OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR — $105,000 · Human ServicesAUGUSTINIAN…CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesCAMBODIAN A…CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE — $105,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT PARK — $50,000 · OtherKHMER PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURE — $25,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA PHYSICIANS FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC — $20,000 · OtherDISCOVERY PATHWAYS — $39,450 · EnvironmentPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia — $30,000 · Youth Development
    Health$1,221,995Education$225,000Human Services$185,000Crime & Legal$105,000Other$95,000Environment$39,450Youth Development$30,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $780,424 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INC — $441,571 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE — $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTINIAN DEFENDERS OF THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR — $105,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC — $80,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT PARK — $50,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY PATHWAYS — $39,450 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PHYSICIANS FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 100% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    The William Penn FoundationPA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Methodist Hospital 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.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
      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.

      05Through Plinth

      Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

      How do I get to Methodist Hospital Foundation?

      Find your warmest path to Methodist Hospital Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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