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Philabundance
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $383,604 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $47,512,458 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,128,854 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.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Promise Montco PA | $100,000 |
| Murphy's Giving Market | $76,809 |
| Lutheran Settlement House Senior Center | $56,000 |
| Haitian Evangelical Baptist Church | $53,191 |
| Victory Assembly of God | $27,584 |
| Mighty Writers - North | $17,540 |
| Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities | $14,497 |
| Small Things | $13,883 |
| Grace Tabernacle Christian Church | $9,063 |
| Catholic Social Services Montgomery County | $7,200 |
| Interfaith Food Cupboard | $5,945 |
| Church of Christian Compassion | $1,392 |
| Manna On Main Street | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% 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 +53% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA5× · 2021–2025 · $254k · revenue +141%
- MGMURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC5× · 2021–2025 · $154k · revenue +604%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY4× · 2021–2024 · $112k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PAPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +275%
- MSMID-ATLANTIC STATES CAREER & EDUCATION CENTER INCgraduated5× · 2021–2025 · $96k · revenue +210%
- TGTHE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD5× · 2021–2025 · $60k
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.
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…
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
To provide food and transitional housing to low income/homeless families and individuals in franklin and surrounding counties in pa
To combat food insecurity and food waste by providing home-delivered fresh produce and pantry essentials to seniors, disabled residents, and low-income families in northwest philadelphia while also supporting local pantries, shelters, and…
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
Providing food, diapers and household essentials to families in need in Philadelphia.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Rooted in faith and compassion we provide services that honor the dignity of all by striving to meet basic human needs.
The mission of the food cupboard is to nourish and feed those in our community who are unable to do so on their own primarily due to limited financial resources.
Ngo food pantry
Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Montco Pa and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
190 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.
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 FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC STATES CAREER & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds THE SIMPLE WAY ↗
- Who funds METHODIST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MANNA ON MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds CHERRY HILL FOOD AND OUTREACH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds OPPORT-UNITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH & WOMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CAST YOUR CARES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA ASIAN SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER ↗
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: W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Quest for the Best · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation
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 Philabundance 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.