· Private foundation
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEYER STUDIO INC | $130,330 |
| FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR | $50,000 |
| THE CARPENTERS COMPANY | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $22,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +426% since the first grant, against +72% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- CCCHRIST CHURCH2× · 2018–2019 · $600k
- MHMILITARY HERITAGE AND EDUCATION FUND OF THE FTPCC2× · 2020–2021 · $295k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION5× · 2020–2024 · $234k · revenue +426%
Funded once
- WMWASHINGTON MEMORIAL HERITAGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +852% · 60% of their budget
- PSPHILA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKSone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +23%
- FTFIRST TROOP OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." In the 21st century the Society sustains this mission in three…
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Preserving, teaching and presenting history through inspiring museum exhibits, programs and archival materials.
Sewickley Valley Historical Societys mission is to promote interest in and to record, collect, preserve and document the history of the Sewickley Valley.
The historical society of montgomery county's mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the history of montgomery county, pennsylvania and to educate the public about the region's ongoing multi-faceted cultural story... creating…
To educate the public about the experiences and history of veterans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Penn Valley Women's Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 42 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 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MEMORIAL HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds PHILA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Valley Forge Valley Forge Park Alliance ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR ↗
- Who funds CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Independence Seaport Museum ↗
- Who funds THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE BATTLEFIELD PARK ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds National Society of the Children of the American Revolution ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PENN VALLEY WOMEN'S CLUB ↗
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: Connelly Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Donors Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution 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.
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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