· Private foundation
Phyllis Recca Foundation
Its FY2026 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Barnard Station | $11,347 |
| Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | $6,881 |
| Angel Wings Kitty Sanctuary | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Barn at Spring Brook Farm | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead | $2,000 |
| Mighty Writers | $1,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Mansion House Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA7× · 2020–2026 · $52k · revenue +59%
- CFCHADDS FORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +55%
- TBTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC7× · 2020–2026 · $19k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CCChester County History Centerone grant, 2025 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The hoyt library is a public free library located in kingston, pa. it was established as a nonsectarian library with reading and writing rooms suitable to the needs of the citizens in kingston and surrounding vicinity.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
County historical society providing for preservation and collection of materials relating to local county history. maintain and operate historic house museum.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CHADDS FORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL WINGS KITTY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE BATTLEFIELD PARK ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds KENNETT HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Phyllis Recca Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phyllis Recca Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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