· Private foundation
Pts Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
- $250k+3 grants · $825k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NETTER - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS | $300,000 |
| WISTAR INSTITUTE | $275,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CITY ROWING INC | $250,000 |
| WRITTERS MATTER | $137,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA MURAL ART ADVOCATES | $77,500 |
| CEASEFIREPA EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION PALLIATIVE MEDICINE GRANT | $40,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SHIPLEY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| LAUREL SCHOOL-ANNUAL FUND | $12,500 |
| PLAY FOR BLAKE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +62%- PCPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +41% · 50% of their budget
- TWTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- WIWISTAR INSTITUTE CORONAVIRUS DISCOVERY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IRIOCC RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISISone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TTTHE TEMPLE-TIFERETH ISRAELone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.
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Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia City Rowing Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WRITERS MATTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
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 William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Hess Foundation Inc · Le Vine Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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