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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$945kEnvironment$450kHealth$402kRecreation & Sports$312kInternational$290kHuman Services$229kPublic Safety & Disaster$155kScience & Tech$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $756k
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOP - Parkway Run$105,843
NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION$100,000
Shoes that Fit$100,000
CHOP Medical Financial Partnership$100,000
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
SJU School of Risk Management$50,000
University of Georgia$50,000
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia$50,000
AIM Academy Pathways Program$50,000
Temple University School of RM$50,000
One Goal$50,000
Japan America Society of Greater$45,000
TWLOHA$25,000
American Red Cross$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS$25,000
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 (FY22–24, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOVE FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 14%Boys and Girls Country Houston: $10k → 16%Mustard Seed Ranch: $20k → 19%America's Grow-a-Row Inc: $10k → 4%Pettaway Pursuit Foundation: $5k → 10%Shoes that Fit: $100k → 14%American Red Cross: $25k → 14%GRANDS STEPPING UP: $5k → 10%Shoes that Fit: $50k → 14%DePelchin Children's Center: $10k → 16%American Red Cross: $25k → 14%Red Cross: $25k → 14%American Red Cross: $25k → 14%American Red Cross: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 17 repeat orgs$982k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
22

Total granted

$2.3M
$441k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

47%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $541k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +26%
  • ST
    SHOES THAT FIT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +15%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -79%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • II
    INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2021 · $38k
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 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Coalition Against Childhood Cancer

Collaborative network to support & serve the childhood cancer community.

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
11
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg; the most unlike its peers is Mary S Ziegler Scholarship Trust in Memory. 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

43 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. 43 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
25/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $290,000 · OtherBEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INCCHOP - Parkway Run: $281,374 · OtherCHOP - Parkway RunSJU School of Risk Management: $150,000 · OtherSJU School of Risk ManagementUniversity of Georgia: $150,000 · OtherUniversity of GeorgiaTemple University School of RM: $150,000 · OtherTemple University School of RMAIM Academy Pathways Program: $125,000 · OtherAIM Academy Pathways ProgramCHOP Medical Financial Partnership: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $75,000 · Other+32 more: $620,500 · Other+32 moreNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR …+1 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentSHOES THAT FIT: $150,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $20,000 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEE…+6 more: $50,000 · Human Services+6 moreCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $37,500 · EducationCOLLEGE PO…ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $37,500 · EducationACADEMY IN…Le Moyne College: $30,000 · EducationLe Moyne C…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $20,000 · EducationDONORSCHOO…ASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · HealthTWLOHA INC: $25,000 · HealthBEYOND TYPE 1: $20,000 · HealthMADELYN JAMES: $15,000 · HealthVASCULAR BIRTHMARKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $10,000 · HealthRIDE HARD BREATHE EASY: $10,000 · HealthActive Minds Inc: $10,000 · HealthONEGOAL: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTING CHAMPIONS: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $33,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC CREST YOUTH ARTS ORGANIZATION: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,941,874Environment$456,000Human Services$345,000Education$295,000Health$150,000Youth Development$80,000Arts & Culture$48,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWLOHA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND TYPE 1: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSTARD SEED RANCH: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPACIFIC CREST YOUTH ARTS ORGANIZATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMADELYN JAMES: $15,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE WOW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVASCULAR BIRTHMARKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRIDE HARD BREATHE EASY: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENCOMPASS MINISTRIES INC fka PAPAS PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETTAWAY PURSUIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY S ZIEGLER SCHOLARSHIP TRUST IN MEMORY: $5,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetSTORM THE HEAVENS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKids Against Hunger Philadelphia INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGRANDS STEPPING UP: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCONNECTING CHAMPIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
  • Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
  • Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND TYPE 1 ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CREST YOUTH ARTS ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds MADELYN JAMES ↗

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.

Chubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Cigna Group Found…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…The Cedarcrest Charit…Phillies Charities IncThe Patricia Kind Fam…The Barra Foundation …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Wawa Foundation I…
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · Phillies Charities Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Wawa Foundation Inc

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 Philadelphia Insurance Companies Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philadelphia Insurance Companies Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • The Wow Center Inc: 38% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Philadelphia Insurance Companies Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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