· Public charity
Philadelphia AIDS Thrift
To raise funds for Delaware Valley organizations providing HIV/AIDS services/programs through the operation of a Thrift Store.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $467,135 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $487,535 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,400 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACTION WELLNESS | $54,500 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
| URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION | $38,500 |
| PREVENTION POINT | $21,000 |
| MANNA | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE | $20,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $18,900 |
| AIDS FUND | $15,000 |
| BEBASHI TRANSITION TO HOPE | $12,500 |
| AIDS DELAWARE | $12,500 |
| MAZZONI CENTER | $12,500 |
| AIDS LAW PROJECT | $12,500 |
| THE EVERYWHERE PROJECT | $12,500 |
| RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT - MORRIS HOME | $12,500 |
| PINK AND BLUES INTERNATIONAL | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $606k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +176%- WWWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +139%
- PPPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +668%
Funded once
- AIANGELS IN MOTIONone grant, 2020 · $15k
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -100%- SWSEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Providing drug and alcohol counseling and referral for treatment and education clients about hiv/aids and sexually transmitted diseases in allegheny county
Aids service center of lower manhattan, inc., d/b/a alliance for positive change ("alliance") is a not-for-profit community organization founded in 1990 with a central mission of helping low-income new yorkers living with hiv and other…
Aids project of the east bay (apeb) is focused on the prevention of the spread of hiv and supports individuals living with the virus through programs targeted at some of the most vulnerable and marginalized individuals. apeb seeks to…
Provide HIV/STD testing and support for those affected
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
Provided oversight of the advocacy program Executive Director.
To promote health, well-being, and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals, and communities marginalized by society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mazzoni Center and the most unlike its peers is The Hack Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 43 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 AIDS FUND ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ActionAids Inc ↗
- Who funds AIDS LAW PROJECT OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bebashi-Transition to Hope ↗
- Who funds MAZZONI CENTER ↗
- Who funds LGBT ELDER INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds AIDS DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SILOAM ↗
- Who funds Resources for Human Development Inc ↗
- Who funds CBE-PRIDE ↗
- Who funds ACCESSMATTERS ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds AIM ANGELS IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds EVERYWHERE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEXT LEVEL REVIVAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FIGHT ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Addiction CaRE Volunteers ↗
- Who funds SEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Gender Justice Fund · Accessmatters · Union Benevolent Association
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 Philadelphia AIDS Thrift 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.
- Aids Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
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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