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Stratton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$790k
Granted FY2022
26
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$140kReligion$115kHuman Services$105kEducation$100kHealth$73kCrime & Legal$65kFood & Nutrition$48kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2022 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $763,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $790,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $370k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $365k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Schwenkfelder Church**$100,000
Theatre Horizon**$100,000
Advocates Against Domestic Violence, Inc.$65,000
Thomas Jefferson University$50,000
Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers**$50,000
Germantown Academy**$40,000
Georgia Mountain Food Bank$40,000
Gemma Services**$35,000
Settlement Music School$35,000
Good News at Noon, Inc.$30,000
YMCA of Southwest Florida, Inc.$25,000
Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc$25,000
Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc$25,000
Family Promise of the Main Line$25,000
Knox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research Inc$20,000
02Your 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.

1
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
2
The Montessori School

The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…

3
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
6
The Miquon School

A beacon of progressive education, miquon celebrates childhood, cultivates a love of learning, and inspires children to advocate and care for themselves, each other, and the world.

Education
7
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
8
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
9
Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence Charter School

The mission of the howard gardner multiple intelligence charter school is to provide an approach to education that cultivates the potential of each student through the development of his/her multiple intelligences. by focusing on…

Education
10
The Miller School of Albemarle

We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.

Education
11
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
12
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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYmca Community CentersUrban Agriculture EducationFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Theater CompaniesCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Food Pantries and AssistanceClassical Music OrchestrasCharter and Independent Sch…Community Hospital SystemsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

03the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $193,934 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTRAL SCHWENKFELDER CHURCH — $100,000 · OtherCENTRAL SCHWENKFELDER CHURCHAdvocates Against Domestic Violence, Inc. — $65,000 · OtherAdvocates Against Domestic Violence, Inc.MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $50,000 · OtherMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INCYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · OtherPhiladelphia Youth Basketball Inc — $25,000 · OtherSouthwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — $25,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE — $25,000 · OtherKnox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research Inc — $20,000 · Other+3 more — $22,000 · OtherTHEATRE HORIZON INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE HORIZON …SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC…Wayne Art Center — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFF…THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN — $40,000 · EducationTHE PUBLIC …Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $10,000 · EducationTemple Univ…Gemma Services — $35,000 · Human ServicesGemma Ser…JESSES HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesJESSES HO…NORTH GEORGIA ANGEL HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNORTH GEO…GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionLIVING HOPE FARM INC — $8,000 · Food & NutritionNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · AnimalsRIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER — $10,000 · EnvironmentCORKSCREW REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM WATERSHED LAND & WATE — $5,000 · EnvironmentTAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN — $3,000 · Public Benefit
Other$550,934Arts & Culture$140,000Education$100,000Human Services$80,000Food & Nutrition$48,000Animals$20,000Environment$15,000Public Benefit$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHEATRE HORIZON INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGemma Services — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESSES HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH GEORGIA ANGEL HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING HOPE FARM INC — $8,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWayne Art Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORKSCREW REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM WATERSHED LAND & WATE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Connelly FoundationPA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Little Tower Foundation · The Arcadia Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Hess Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

03Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Stratton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stratton Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.7M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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