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Powell Family Foundation Richard S Powell Family Division
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of POWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION RICHARD S POWELL 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $279k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER | $30,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $25,000 |
| JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY | $20,000 |
| NORRITOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $15,000 |
| GREATER WEST CHESTER ROTARY FOUNDATION- CORS PROGRAM | $13,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA-ORPHAN DISEASE CENTER | $11,000 |
| THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHOP | $10,000 |
| AIM ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +55% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- RERIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +50%
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +183%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA-ADOLESCENT CENTER-PMT 1one grant, 2021 · $25k
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA-ADOLESCENT CENTER-PMT 3one grant, 2019 · $25k
- PSPENN STATE ARTS ENTREPENEURSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $20k
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,…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Agnes Irwin School and the most unlike its peers is Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. 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 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 106 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 RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE INC ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · The Arcadia Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc
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 Richard S 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% 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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