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Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia at a glance

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Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$66kHealth$35kArts & Culture$33kHuman Services$28kInternational$16kPhilanthropy$14kHousing & Shelter$14kCommunity Improvement$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lasalle University$5,000
Philly House$5,000
Widener University$5,000
Dialogue Institute$2,500
Rotary District 5280$2,500
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia$2,500
Ascendance$2,000
Lutheran Settlement House$1,500
West Catholic Preparatory High$1,500
Liguori Academy$1,500
Shelter Box USA$1,000
Peace Day Philly$1,000
Ronald McDonald House$1,000
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 (FY19–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Shelter Box USA: $1k → 14%Today is a Good Day: $1k → 7%Federation Early Learning Services: $1k → 22%The Garces Foundation: $500 → 22%Philly House: $5k → 22%Women in Transition: $2k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $5k → 22%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $3k → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FAIRNESS PROJECT: $2k → 22%THE NEXT STEP PROGRAMS: $1k → 22%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.
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 22 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
71

Total granted

$117k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+7%

Still filing today

45%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MI
    MUSICOPIA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +359%
  • WI
    WOMEN IN TRANSITION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +3%
  • LI
    LIGUORI INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • MIGHTY WRITERS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SM
    STRAWBERRY MANSION LEARNING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +163%
  • PF
    PA for Modern Courts
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
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.

—
4
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
6
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
7
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
8
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
9
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
10
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.

—
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
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Federation Day Care Services D/B/a Federation Early Learning Services; the most unlike its peers is Ekenywa. 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

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
25/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherROTOPLAST: $7,800 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,315 · OtherPEACE DAY PHILLY: $7,300 · OtherThe Gundaker Foundation: $7,000 · Other+63 more: $119,975 · Other+63 moreLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITYLIGUORI INC: $7,000 · EducationLIGUORI INCMIGHTY WRITERS: $5,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationWIDENER UNIVERSITYSTRAWBERRY MANSION LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 · EducationSTRAWBERRY MANSION …THE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $2,580 · EducationTHE DICTIONARY PROJ…TREE HOUSE BOOKS: $2,500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $2,500 · EducationDIALOGUE INSTITUTE DBA JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES: $2,500 · EducationREADING ALLOWED: $2,500 · EducationOLNEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL: $2,100 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationMUSICOPIA INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICOPIA …PLAY ON PHILLY: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLAY ON PH…THE WYCK ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WYCK A…WHYY INC: $1,600 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCWOMEN IN TRANSITION: $7,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN …SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BR…TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3,500 · Human ServicesTODAY IS …BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $2,500 · Human ServicesBROAD STR…Delaware Valley Fairness Project: $1,500 · Human ServicesDelaware …FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP PROGRAMS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesProject Libertad: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterHosts for Hospitals: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthLIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthRHEUMATOLOGY FOR ALL: $2,000 · HealthEKENYWA: $5,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $1,500 · International
Other$157,390Education$47,680Arts & Culture$25,600Human Services$23,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$8,000International$6,500

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 budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN TRANSITION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAWBERRY MANSION LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEKENYWA: $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSMALL THINGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Libertad: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $2,580 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHosts for Hospitals: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREADING ALLOWED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLNEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AN ASPIRA INC OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAGP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WYCK ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWHYY INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN INTERNATIONAL LEADERS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Valley Fairness Project: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTINY SEED PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP PROGRAMS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Capital Advisors: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN IN TRANSITION ↗
  • Who funds LIGUORI INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
  • Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds STRAWBERRY MANSION LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
  • Who funds EKENYWA ↗
  • Who funds SMALL THINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Libertad ↗
  • Who funds KISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TODAY IS A GOOD DAY ↗
  • Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
  • Who funds TREE HOUSE BOOKS ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds Hosts for Hospitals ↗
  • Who funds DIALOGUE INSTITUTE DBA JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds READING ALLOWED ↗

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 Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…The Patricia Kind Fam…Phillies Charities IncUnited Way of Greater…Union Benevolent Asso…The Gordon Charter Fo…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The Allen Hilles Fund
The Philadelphia FoundationPA40.4× affinity19 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 William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Union Benevolent Association · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Allen Hilles Fund

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 Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Foundation of Philadelphia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    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.

    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 102 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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