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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.

$331k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$725kPhilanthropy$256kArts & Culture$230kEducation$182kYouth Development$77kHealth$70kRecreation & Sports$66kAnimals$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $192k
$3,600
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 10%JOIN ISRAEL: $500 → 6%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $4k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MD
DE
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 35 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
47

Total granted

$1.4M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $717k · revenue +92%
  • NZ
    NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +183%
  • WO
    WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN ADOLESCENT CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSIC HERITAGE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • A
    AVSC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

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…

Human Services
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

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…

Health
8
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
9
Drexel University

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…

Education
10
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

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…

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11
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
12
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

The college of physicians of philadelphia advances the cause of health, while upholding the ideals and heritage of medicine

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $717,200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC+2 more: $4,873 · InternationalATLANTIC CAPE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherATLANTIC CAPE FOUNDATIONLOWER MERION AND NARBERTH PA TV: $93,000 · OtherLOWER MERION AND NARBERTH PA TVTARA MILLER FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherTARA MILLER FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA: $36,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILATRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN ADOLESCENT CENTER: $28,250 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSIC HERITAGE COUNCIL: $25,000 · OtherNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherETC 34 S INC: $21,000 · Other+53 more: $167,826 · Other+53 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN …+3 more: $3,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND: $84,210 · Arts & CultureGreater West Chester Rotary Foundat: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $7,168 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $6,335 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $22,625 · HealthHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $4,000 · Health+6 more: $5,500 · HealthMACCABI USA INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $5,000 · Youth Development
International$722,073Other$576,076Education$174,000Arts & Culture$107,713Health$58,125Recreation & Sports$50,000Youth Development$39,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $717,200 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND: $84,210 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $22,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetETC 34 S INC: $21,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $7,525 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $7,168 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHUS Charitable Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GATEWAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIBE 12: $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLAH FOR HUNGER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $2,835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Wildfire Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA BREAST CANCER COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $1,873 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Film Office: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSacred Cycle: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE TIME FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGICAL MILA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Saramar Charitabl…The Philadelphia Foun…The Mitchell and Hila…The Snider FoundationErlbaum Family Founda…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Cigna Group Found…The William Penn Foun…Powell Family Foundat…Katz Family Charitabl…The Gordon Charter Fo…Connelly Foundation
The Saramar Charitable FundPA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Powell Family Foundation Jon R Powell Family Division funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Powell Family Foundation Jon R Powell Family Division. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Powell Family Foundation Jon R Powell 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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 92 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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