Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Poor Richard's Charitable Trust
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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $859,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Poor Richard's Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $2.9M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $3.0M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $3.3M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $3.3M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $4,435,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $714,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Starfinder Foundation | $675,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Center City District Foundation | $547,500 | 5 | 20% |
| Abortion Liberation Fund of Pa | $500,000 | 3 | 58% |
| Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative | $450,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Germination Project | $450,000 | 5 | 81% |
| Spotlight Pa | $375,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Fringearts | $285,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Neighborhood Gardens Trust | $265,000 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Poor Richard's Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
How this is measured
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About Poor Richard's Charitable Trust
- How much does Poor Richard's Charitable Trust give?
- Poor Richard's Charitable Trust reported 35 grants totaling $3,055,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Poor Richard's Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (8%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are Poor Richard's Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Philadelphia Museum of Art ($4.4M), Smithsonian Institution ($714k), Starfinder Foundation ($675k).
- Does Poor Richard's Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Poor Richard's Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Poor Richard's Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
- Where is Poor Richard's Charitable Trust based?
- Poor Richard's Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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