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Ounsworth-Fitzgerald Foundation at a glance

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Ounsworth-Fitzgerald Foundation

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.

$9k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Education$34kReligion$24kHealth$18kInternational$10kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$4kYouth Development$3kSocial Science$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OUTWARD BOUND$2,000
WISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL$1,000
ONE REVOLUTION FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY19–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INGLES FOUNDATION: $4k → 22%INGLES FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%INGLES FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 13 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$96k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+41%

Still filing today

38%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +50%
  • M
    MAIA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • BF
    BYERSCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +51%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • TP
    THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +41%
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 Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
3
Foundations Inc

Foundations is dedicated to improving the quality of education for our nation's most vulnerable children by strengthening the skills of educators through professional learning. foundations, inc. is a not-for-profit educational service…

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4
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
9
Multicultural Academy Charter School

It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…

Education
10
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
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Revolution School

Revolution school is breaking down the walls between learning and life because high school can and should be a revolution. we are creating an environment for education where students and teachers are inspired by each other, their world,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is One-Revolution Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIBLE WAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherBIBLE WAY BAPTIST CHURCHSUMMIT PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH: $9,000 · OtherSUMMIT PRESBYTARIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPHILA MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 · OtherPHILA MUSEUM OF ARTNORWOOD FONTBONNE ACADEMY: $4,000 · OtherNORWOOD FONTBONNE ACADEMYSALVATION ARMY: $3,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOUTWARD BOUND: $3,000 · OtherOUTWARD BOUNDPENN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $3,750 · Other+5 moreUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $19,300 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION …HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIABYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationMAIA: $10,000 · InternationalMAIAALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'…INGLIS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOne-Revolution Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $200 · Environment
Other$53,250Education$28,300International$10,000Health$10,000Human Services$7,000Arts & Culture$2,500Environment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $19,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINGLIS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne-Revolution Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ounsworth-Fitzgerald Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ounsworth-Fitzgerald Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%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
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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 26 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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