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Powell Family Foundation Jon R Powell 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI | $110,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE | $82,210 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $25,000 |
| HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WOMEN OF TOMORROW | $11,500 |
| ATLANTIC CAPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB | $10,000 |
| TARA MILLER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA | $4,500 |
| ONE HOUSE AT A TIME | $4,000 |
| CHABAD OF TRIBECA | $3,600 |
| MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE | $3,555 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $2,525 |
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 (FY22–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC7× · 2019–2025 · $717k · revenue +171%
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +183%
- WOWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN ADOLESCENT CENTERone grant, 2019 · $28k
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSIC HERITAGE COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AAVSCone grant, 2023 · $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.
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,…
Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The college of physicians of philadelphia advances the cause of health, while upholding the ideals and heritage of medicine
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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 31 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 92 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ETC 34 S INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater West Chester Rotary Foundat ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds KING OF PRUSSIA YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHUS Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds TRIBE 12 ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
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: The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Mitchell and Hilarie Morgan Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Powell Family Foundation Richard S Powell Family Division · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly 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 Jon R Powell 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% 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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