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Olson Family Pooled Common Fund at a glance

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Olson Family Pooled Common Fund

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.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$112kFood & Nutrition$11kPublic Benefit$10kRecreation & Sports$7kArts & Culture$2kInternational$1kAnimals$240Community Improvement$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INN DWELLING$36,000
THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP$10,000
HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION$10,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$5,000
ASPCA$100
FRIENDS OF CHESTNUT HILL LIBRARY$100
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$100
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM$100
CHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$100
WILLS EYE FOUNDATION$50
02The need
03

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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 4 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$85k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-26%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • ID
    INN DWELLING INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $82k · revenue -26%
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue -39%
  • CH
    CHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY SPORTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TC
    THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • AS
    AFRICAN SISTERS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

1
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
2
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
3
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
4
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
5
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
City of Philadelphia Trustee Administering Wills Eye Hospital

Established in 1832 as a gift from james wills, a philadelphia merchant, to the city of philadelphia, wills eye's mission is to provide excellence in ophthalmic care to the community in need. see schedule o.

Health
8
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
9
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.

—
10
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
The Chestnut Hill School

At the chestnut hill school, our mission to educate children is deeply rooted in a commitment to academic excellence, diversity, and community. we engage, challenge and support children as they develop the skills and confidence to achieve…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INN DWELLING INC: $82,000 · OtherINN DWELLING INCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIAHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $10,000 · OtherHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITIONBROWN UNIVERSITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $3,590 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $50 · EducationTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $10,000 · Civil RightsWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $2,200 · Arts & CulturePhilabundance: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INC: $200 · Community ImprovementTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 · Animals
Other$110,590Education$10,050Human Services$10,000Civil Rights$10,000Arts & Culture$2,200Food & Nutrition$1,000Community Improvement$200Animals$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINN DWELLING INC: $82,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Chestnut Hill Library: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Philadelphia Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Olson Family Pooled Common Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olson Family Pooled Common Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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 · 0–10%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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