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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AIM ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| MAIN LINE MUSIC FEST | $10,000 |
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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 3one grant, 2019 · $25k
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA-ADOLESCENT CENTER-PMT 1one grant, 2021 · $25k
- PSPENN STATE ARTS ENTREPENEURSHIP PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Powell Family Foundation Richard S Powell Family Division funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Powell Family Foundation Richard S Powell Family Division. Bigger dots raise more.
- Postpartum Support International: 43% of income from government
How this is measured
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