· Private foundation
Philachange
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOLD GARDENS TRUST | $130,000 |
| THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER | $35,000 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION2× · 2021–2022 · $160k
- FHFREEDOM HOUSE2× · 2022–2023 · $65k · revenue -26%
THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- DSDETROIT SMALL BUSINESS STABLIZATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
- RAREADING ALLOWEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +79%
- HDHOPE & DOORone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -20%
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.
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.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.
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.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…
Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Next city, inc. is a non-profit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world. the vision of the organization is for a world in which cities are…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
To study, support, and promote circular economy principles and markets and to educate the public on the circular economy.
The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Philachange funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philachange. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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