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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.

$303k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$303k11%
FY202417$218k18%
FY202315$203k7%
FY202218$270k11%
FY202118$311k17%
FY202013$197k23%
FY201919$239kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$463kEducation$424kHuman Services$264kArts & Culture$202kInternational$177kCrime & Legal$95kFood & Nutrition$60kCivil Rights$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($469k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Forum: $176,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetLiveGirl Inc: $156,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Sydney USA Foundation: $141,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $114,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetConnecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: $95,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetA Place at the Table: $60,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetGreens Farms Academy Inc: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Violence Prevention Center Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Green Chair Project: $32,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGfns Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation: $19,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBreathe 4 Als Inc: $15,258 over 2y, 39% of budgetNami Wake County: $15,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFairville Friends School Inc: $14,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetKripalu Center for Yoga & Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity of Philadelphia Trustee Administering Wills Eye Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Learning Commnunity Charter School Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Insead Management Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Powell Family Foundation NancyWA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division

How much does Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division give?
Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division reported 19 grants totaling $303,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Education (24%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of the Forum ($176k), LiveGirl Inc ($156k), University of Sydney USA Foundation ($141k).
Does Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division 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 Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Powell Family Foundation Nancy, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division based?
Powell Family Foundation Carol P Heller Family Division is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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