· Public charity
Montgomery County Foundation Inc
To develop, receive, administer and manage, under community control, funds received from public and private sources and distribute them for charitable purposes, primarily to meet local needs.
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.
The 12 grants below total $159,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $356,698 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $197,198 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCESS SERVICES | $44,500 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $15,000 |
| ROXY THERAPY DOGS INC | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $10,000 |
| MANNA ON MAIN STREET | $10,000 |
| BUCKS-MONT COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $10,000 |
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, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- ASACCESS SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +54%
- PCPottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti6× · 2017–2023 · $232k · revenue +85%
- KOKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- AUARCADIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +21%
- FSFOCUS STRATEGIESone grant, 2021 · $22k
- TOTHE OPEN LINK INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +0%
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.
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Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
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Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carson Valley Children's Aid and the most unlike its peers is Colonial Neighborhood Council. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 105 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 ACCESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti ↗
- Who funds Carson Valley Children's Aid ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ACLAMO ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Community Action Development Commission ↗
- Who funds MANNA ON MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds THE PATHWAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PETER BECKER COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HEDWIG HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CECIL AND GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Valley Forge Valley Forge Park Alliance ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND AFFECTION INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN LINK INC ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Healthspark Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Quest for the Best · Mitzvah Circle Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable
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 Montgomery County Foundation 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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