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Pond Lehocky Giordano Foundation

$7k
Granted FY2023
25
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Public Benefit$31kHuman Services$10kHealth$9kEducation$6kFood & Nutrition$4kCommunity Improvement$3kCrime & Legal$2kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
9
States reached
$460
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO KID HUNGRY$500
LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$250
JUSTINIAN FOUNDATION$250
BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS$250
TOYS FOR TOTS$250
GUNS DOWN GLOVES UP$250
ALABAMA MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$250
HOPE WALKS INC FREEDOM FROM CLUBFOOT$250
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$250
FUNDACION PRO AYUDA DE PUERTO RICO$250
EMPOWERING CUTS$250
MALEEK JACKSON GYMAZZIM DUKES INITIATIVE$250
METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC$250
UNITE FOR HER$250
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAVE A LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $250 → 7%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $500 → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $500 → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $250 → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $250 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250 → 14%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $250 → 22%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $250 → 22%FAMILIES FORWARD PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 22%FAMILIES FORWARD PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 22%FAMILIES FORWARD PHILADELPHIA: $250 → 22%WILLIAM WAY LBGT COMMUNITY: $500 → 22%WILLIAM WAY LBGT COMMUNITY: $500 → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRIES: $250 → 22%CHILDPROMISE INC (CPI): $500 → 22%CHILDPROMISE INC (CPI): $500 → 22%WILLIAM WAY LBGT COMMUNITY: $250 → 22%CHILDPROMISE INC (CPI): $250 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
LA
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30k · 27 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
18

Total granted

$30k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DP
    DISABILITY PRIDE PHILADELPHIA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +115%
  • RM
    Rock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +165%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • PA
    PA Alliance Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -39%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CANCER CARE CONNECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -54%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
2
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
3
Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health
4
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
5
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
6
Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
7
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
8
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
9
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
10
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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11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minding Your Mind and the most unlike its peers is Guns Down Gloves Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterDomestic Violence ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr17%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%49%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr17%17%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,113

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PA Alliance Foundation — $30,000 · Civil RightsPA Alliance Foundation+2 more — $1,500 · Civil RightsSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $1,750 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANI…SHARE OUR STRENGTH — $1,750 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHIndividual grant recipient — $1,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIBSON TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH — $1,000 · Other298 INC — $1,000 · OtherTHE JUSTINIAN FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA — $750 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA — $750 · OtherSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $1,500 · OtherSHARE FOOD PROGRAMCARING FOR FRIENDS — $750 · OtherTravis Manion Foundation — $1,000 · OtherMAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · OtherOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $1,000 · OtherPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $1,000 · Other+14 more — $5,052 · Other+14 moreTRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,750 · Human ServicesTRAVELERS AID S…BEVERLY'S PGH — $1,500 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGHWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $1,250 · Human ServicesWILLIAM WAY LGB…LAUREL HOUSE — $1,250 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSEPROJECT HOME — $1,250 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMECHILDPROMISE INC — $1,250 · Human ServicesCHILDPROMISE IN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $750 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…FUNDACION PRO AYUDA DE PUERTO RICO INC — $500 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FEET — $500 · Human Services+3 more — $750 · Human Services+3 moreCANCER CARE CONNECTION — $2,000 · HealthCANCER CA…LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 · HealthLUPUS FOU…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $750 · HealthBLOOD CAN…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $500 · HealthAMERICAN …LISAS ARMY INC — $500 · HealthLISAS ARM…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 · HealthST JUDE C…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · HealthALZHEIMER…Unite for HER — $250 · HealthMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC — $250 · HealthMINDING YOUR MIND — $250 · HealthEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA — $250 · HealthDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationDISABILITY PRIDE PHILADELPHIA INC — $2,000 · Community ImprovementBLOCK GIVES BACK CORP — $250 · Community ImprovementRock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc — $2,000 · Crime & LegalGUNS DOWN GLOVES UP — $250 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$31,500Other$19,552Human Services$10,750Health$6,750Education$5,000Community Improvement$2,250Crime & Legal$2,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPA Alliance Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CARE CONNECTION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDISABILITY PRIDE PHILADELPHIA INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH — $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDPROMISE INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDACION PRO AYUDA DE PUERTO RICO INC — $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLISAS ARMY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnite for HER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK GIVES BACK CORP — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The Cigna Group Found…United Way of Greater…Chubb Charitable Foun…Bread and Roses Commu…W W Smith Charitable …The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for Good
The Philadelphia FoundationPA22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good

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 Pond Lehocky Giordano Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • Cancer Care Connection — 48% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home