· Private foundation
Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k101 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE | $130,500 |
| CITY OF BRADFORD OECD | $100,000 |
| FUTURES REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $50,500 |
| BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DESTINATIONS BRADFORD | $20,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP TABLE | $18,260 |
| BRADFORD LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA | $13,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BRADFORD AREA INC | $12,200 |
| BRADFORD CREATIVE AND PERFORMING AR | $11,500 |
| CARE FOR CHILDREN | $10,500 |
| EVERGREEN ELM INC | $10,000 |
| BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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 (FY17–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
176 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 122 since wound down; 54 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD9× · 2017–2025 · $498k · revenue +19%
- BABRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $273k · revenue +638%
- BEBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- BFBASD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2023 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
To empower our neighbors to foster a healthy community through education, collaboration, advocacy and mobilization of resources
The mission of this fire company is to prevent and extinguish fires in the borough of bradford woods, pa and assist neighboring fire companies as needed.
Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers
Multi-specialty physician group practice organized to serve patients in bradford, pa, and the surrounding area.
Collect, display, and share history
Formed for the purpose of engaging in hunting, fishing, and shooting mark, as well as taking part in all other forms of outdoor sport and for the preservation of the wile life, streams and forest of pennsylvania
The west bradford fire company is a volunteer fire company providing fire suppression/rescue and prevention services to west bradford, east bradford and newlin townships all in the state of pennsylvania. the fire company provides mutual…
To provide charitable contributions for the good of children in the pittsburgh and surrounding areas.
Outdoor activities to promote enjoyment of outdoor sports to include trapshooting & shooting.
Provide food to those of need.
To provide education, guidance, and training to those members of the community who may be at risk of not maintaining a reasonable standard of living and who cannot acquire these necessary skills through traditional channels
To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.
How this is measured
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 490 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP TABLE ↗
- Who funds DESTINATIONS BRADFORD ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN ELM INC ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FUTURES REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds POTTER CO EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEAN CO PA SOCIETY OF THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Bradford Landmark Society ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · Pembroke Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Bradford Area Inc · Mukaiyama Rice Foundation · Upmc Group · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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