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Square Roots Community Partnership Inc

To undertake programs and activities that will benefit the civic and common welfare of small communities in america, starting with kennett square, pennsylvania.

$106k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Community Improvement$96kPhilanthropy$40kArts & Culture$37kRecreation & Sports$31kEnvironment$20kEducation$10k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $85,958, the rows itemized in this filing. The $105,958 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $68k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE$48,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY$20,000
VOICES UNDERGROUND$6,000
KENNETT AREA TRAILS ALLIANCE$6,000
CASA GUANAJUATO$5,958
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE: $48k → 6%BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE: $48k → 6%VOICES UNDERGROUND: $25k → 6%KENNETT AREA TRAILS ALLIANCE: $25k → 6%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $20k → 6%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $20k → 6%KENNETT AREA TRAILS ALLIANCE: $6k → 6%VOICES UNDERGROUND: $6k → 6%BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $20k → 6%CASA GUANAJUATO: $6k → 6%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 4 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$198k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+374%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • BO
    BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $96k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue -18%
  • VU
    VOICES UNDERGROUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • BR
    BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -80%
  • LU
    LINCOLN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION OF PAgraduated
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +374%
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
Kernersville Downtown Preservation and Development Council

Promotion activities for downtown kernersville.

Housing & Shelter
2
Friends of the Catharine Valley Trail
Environment
3
Pickens County Tourism Association

Tourism and promotion

Arts & Culture
4
Kenosha Co Archaeological Society
Arts & Culture
5
Central Pennsylvania Tasting Trail

Promote tourism in Centre County PA

Community Improvement
6
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
7
French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…

Environment
8
Karnes County Historical Society
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9
Friends of the Kennebec River Rail Trail Inc

Raising funds and recruit volunteers to maintain the kennebec river rail trail.

Environment
10
Kent Economic Partnership Inc

The kent economic partnership (kep) is a non-profit organization created to support and expand business interests throughout central delaware.

Community Improvement
11
National Pike Trail Council
Environment
12
Kennedy Mine Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kennett Collaborative Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kennett Area Trails Alliance. 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE: $96,000 · OtherBOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUAREUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH…VOICES UNDERGROUND: $31,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES UNDERGROUN…CASA GUANAJUATO INC: $5,958 · Arts & CultureCASA GUANAJUATO I…KENNETT AREA TRAILS ALLIANCE: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsKENNETT AREA TR…BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $20,000 · EnvironmentBRANDYWIN…LINCOLN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION OF PA: $10,000 · Education
Other$96,000Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$36,958Recreation & Sports$31,000Environment$20,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetVOICES UNDERGROUND: $31,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKENNETT AREA TRAILS ALLIANCE: $31,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION OF PA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA GUANAJUATO INC: $5,958 over 1y, 11% 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.

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.

Chester County Community FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Longwood Gardens Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Square Roots Community Partnership Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Square Roots Community Partnership Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Square Roots Community Partnership Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Square Roots Community Partnership Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $272k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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