· Private foundation
T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Princeton Friends School | $4,291 |
| The Quaker School at Horsham | $4,291 |
| United Friends School | $4,291 |
| Buckingham Friends School | $4,291 |
| Stratford Friends School | $4,291 |
| Friends School Haverford | $4,291 |
| Greene Street Friends School | $4,291 |
| Orchard Friends School | $4,291 |
| Westfield Friends School | $4,291 |
| Frankford Friends School | $4,291 |
| Media-Providence Friends School | $4,291 |
| Haddonfield Friends School | $4,291 |
| Greenwood Friends School | $4,290 |
| West Chester Friends School | $4,290 |
| Friends School Mullica Hill | $4,290 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
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
- MFMEDIA-PROVIDENCE FRIENDS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +58%
- OFORCHARD FRIENDS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +60%
- FSFRIENDS SCHOOL CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- THTHISTLE HOFVENDAHL CO UNIVERSITY OFone grant, 2022 · $28k
- TWTHISTLE WEST CO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHone grant, 2020 · $21k
- KMKATE MALONE CO BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…
Friends western school rests in the foundation provided by the quaker belief that there is an inner light in each of us. this idea inspires the ethos of support, encouragement, respect and kindness that is evident at friends western. we…
Friend's school is a supportive, dynamic community committed to educating the whole child head, hand, and heart and to training exceptional teachers for tomorrow's classrooms. we provide a strong academic foundation while developing…
To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.
Mission StatementChicago Friends School rooted in the Quaker values of simplicity, peace,integrity, community, equity, and stewardship develops the academic skills andstrong character that K-8 students need to grow into purposeful…
To educate all students to the highest levels of academic achievement in a Christ-centered environment. To provide student-centered educational programs that challenge all students to perform at their highest potential. To prepare all…
To provide a dynamic educational experience for children in grades kindergarten through grade 12 that emphasizes excellence of mind, body, and spirit, within a diverse, caring community and in the context of quaker values.
To provide a world-class education that motivates students to achieve high academic standards, enjoy learning and develop as ethical, literate, well-rounded and self-sufficient citizens that contribute actively to their communities.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
International friends school prepares students to embrace the challenges of today so they may seize the opportunities of tomorrow. we create habits of strong heart and mind through quaker education in a modern, immersive, multilingual…
Provide pre-school through grade 8 education
Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Friends School and the most unlike its peers is William Penn Charter School 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 53 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 78 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Friends Council on Education · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Snave Foundation · Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jonathan E Rhoads Trust of 123063 · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 organization T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund 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.
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 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.
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