How much did Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

philly

2020

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2021

philly

2022

contributions

2023

caring

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$593k

Total assets

Largest grants

Strawberry Mansion Learn Center$5,000
Anderson Monarchs$2,800
Lutheran Settlement House$2,500
Caring for Friends$2,500
ABC Merit Shop Training$2,500
Temple University$2,500
The Gundaker Foundation$2,000
Peace Day Philly$1,600
Give2Asia$1,500
Open Door Abuse Awareness$1,500
WIL of Greater Philadelphia$1,500
Timoteo Sports$1,500
Rotary Club of Philadelphia$1,500
Auto Dealers Caring Kids$1,200

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$83k · 17 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$83k

$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+43%

Still filing today

47%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

WI
Women in Transition
2× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +30%
LA
LIGUORI ACADEMY
3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +304%
PO
Play on Philly
2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +8%

Funded once

ER
ETHEOPIAN RHEUMATOLOGY PROJECT
one grant, 2018 · $5k
BH
BRIGHT HORIZON FDN
one grant, 2021 · $4k
SG
SPRING GARDEN CDC
one grant, 2018 · $3k

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

04Your field

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.

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

The Philadelphia Award

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The Philadelphia School

See schedule o 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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Project Home

The mission of project home is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty in philadelphia.

Human Services

Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders

To develop and retain principals and leaders who improve student outcomes and drive systemic change.

Education

Horizons Greater Philadelphia Inc

Horizons Greater Philadelphia advances educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.

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Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

To provide under-resourced philadelphia families with scholarships to quality, safe schools.

Education

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Zia Incorporated

Providing food security for Philadelphia schoolchildren and their families with a nutritious meal-kit based delivery model

Food & Nutrition

Aspira Inc of Pennsylvania

To develop the intellectual and creative capacity of puerto rican and other youth.

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Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

To create coordinated systems which promote the attainment of academic achievement, economic opportunity and personal success.in 2022-2023, philadelphia youth network (pyn) and partners provided more than 10,000 opportunities for young…

Youth Development

Equity Project

The Equity Project is committed to advancing racial equity through radical access. We believe every community has the right to transformative experiences creative spaces and the resources needed to reach our full potential. We build the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Whyy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

14%

1,344/9,568

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$116,624Arts & Culture$18,600Human Services$15,500Education$14,100International$6,500Health$4,000Housing & Shelter$2,500

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.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Allen Hilles Fund · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Children Can Shape the Future Inc · Union Benevolent Association · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial

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 organisation Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WIL of Greater Philadelphia.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300405186 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WIL of Greater Philadelphia, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia?

Find your warmest path to Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia?

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Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia?

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