· Private foundation
Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM | $14,000 |
| ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC | $14,000 |
| THE CITY SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY | $14,000 |
| HISTORIC FAIRHILL INC | $13,000 |
| WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $11,000 |
| THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| THE SIMPLE WAY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +68%
- TCThe City School9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +267%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- TWTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +39%
- SSSUNDAY SUPPERSone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -91%
- WPWEST PHILA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.
To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…
Small Things works with local partners and community leaders to alleviate poverty by improving food security and collaborating to address other community needs.
NKCDC advances social equity and economic empowerment by nurturing and creating opportunities for neighbors to live in, and actively shape, their neighborhoods of choice. (See Schedule O)
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.
creating dignified, affordable housing for low-income families in Philadelphia
Fair food is dedicated to bringing locally grown food to the marketplace and to promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture system for the greater philadelphia region
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Impact100 philadelphia engages women in collectively funding high-impact grants that address unmet needs in the philadelphia region and raise the profile of smaller nonprofit organizations.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The City School ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE SIMPLE WAY ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY SUPPERS ↗
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: The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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