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Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of POWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION CAROL P HELLER FAMILY DIVISION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $55,000 |
| LIVEGIRL INC | $25,000 |
| INTERACT | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FORUM | $25,000 |
| THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS | $20,000 |
| LUCY DANIELS CENTER | $20,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY | $16,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $15,000 |
| GEORGE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN PA | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GREENS FARMS NURSERY SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| HORIZONS AT GREENS FARM ACADEMY | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FORUM7× · 2019–2025 · $176k · revenue +63%
- LILiveGirl Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $156k · revenue +240%
- HCHolocaust Center For Humanity7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- AAALS ASSOCIATION GREATER PHILADELPHIAAMERICAN ASIAN WOMEN'S COALITIONBREone grant, 2019 · $40k
- NWNAMI WAKE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -19%
- CICONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEESone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breathe 4 Als Inc. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FORUM ↗
- Who funds LiveGirl Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds LUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Greater West Chester Rotary Foundat ↗
- Who funds GFNS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds The Defiant Requiem Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREATHE 4 ALS INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAIRVILLE FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FORE THE LADIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INSEAD MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Powell Family Foundation Nancy · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
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.
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