· Private foundation
Spring Garden Soup Society
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Whosoever Gospel Mission | $8,000 |
| St Francis Inn | $8,000 |
| The City School | $8,000 |
| Norris Square Senior Center | $8,000 |
| Face to Face (St Vincent's) | $8,000 |
| Feast of Justice | $8,000 |
| St John's Hospice | $8,000 |
| Sherwood Christian Outreach | $8,000 |
| Small Things | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WGWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +45%
- TCThe City School6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +150%
- FOFEAST OF JUSTICE4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- PHPenn Homeone grant, 2020 · $7k
- TSTHE SUNDAY LOVE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +143%
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.
Provide human social educational and spiritual services to individuals in the community
The primary purpose of our organization is to provide outreach to the at-risk, low income residents of the Philadelphia Metropolitan area by providing non-perishable foods, personal needs and informal education.
Support those in need (including senior citizens, disabled persons) with food,groceries and hot lunch in our community and give everyone an opportunity to be part of the cause.
Assist homeless, hungry, and people in low income communities.
To provide food for the homeless
Community outreach and church services
Provide food & clothing to the public
Mission Church
Supplying food to low income residents
Giving hope to disadvantaged children
Community outreach
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
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: Philabundance · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spring Garden Soup Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spring Garden Soup Society. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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