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Technology Learning Collaborative

The TECHNOLOGY LEARNING COLLABORATIVE advances digital equality in greater philadelphia by providing professional development and capacity building for practitioners, driving collaboration, and advocating for digitally inclusive communities.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Education$78kCommunity Improvement$44kCivil Rights$24kYouth Development$22kHuman Services$15k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$239k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$23,769
TALKING TECH WITH WAYNE INC$15,000
PENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES$15,000
TIOGA UNITED INC$15,000
NORRIS SQ COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$15,000
FED OF NEIGHBORHOOD CTRS$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 22%NORRIS SQ COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $15k → 22%NORRIS SQ COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $6k → 22%PENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 22%TIOGA UNITED INC: $15k → 22%TIOGA UNITED INC: $8k → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 22%FED OF NEIGHBORHOOD CTRS: $15k → 22%FED OF NEIGHBORHOOD CTRS: $7k → 22%MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $24k → 22%BEYOND LITERACY: $14k → 22%TALKING TECH WITH WAYNE INC: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 3 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$66k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • TU
    TIOGA UNITED INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue 0%
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue 0%
  • X
    XIENTE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    one grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue +11%
  • BL
    Beyond Literacy
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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
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
3
Education Initiatives Inc

The corporation was organized and will be operated exclusively to fund english as a second language (esl) classes for non-english speaking adults in low-income communities and educational and college and career counseling support efforts…

Education
4
Reading Allowed

Provide specialized, structured literacy tutoring to children and adults in the philadelphia area who struggle to read, write and spell and who do not have the means to access high quality tutoring.

Education
5
Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified
6
Salus University

The mission of salus university is to advance integrated health care through innovative education, research and clinical services.

7
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

8
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
9
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
10
Pennsylvania Diversity Children's Organization

To provide community-based services to linguistically challenged children as well as children with special needs and their families with a focus on the families' cultural, ethinic, and language backgrounds.

Human Services
11
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
12
Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity

PLSE seeks a more equitable social environment for those with criminal records through individual representation strategic litigation community education research and advocacy. PLSE does this by seeking expungements in criminal court and…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beyond Literacy and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DREXEL UNIVERSITY — $24,984 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $23,528 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth…Talking Tech With Wayne Inc — $15,000 · EducationTalking Tech With Wayne IncMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $23,769 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIA…TIOGA UNITED INC — $23,278 · Community ImprovementTIOGA UNITED I…FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $22,314 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATION OF…XIENTE — $20,654 · Housing & ShelterXIENTEPENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $15,000 · HealthPENN ASIA…Beyond Literacy — $14,422 · Other
Education$63,512Arts & Culture$23,769Community Improvement$23,278Youth Development$22,314Housing & Shelter$20,654Health$15,000Other$14,422

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 budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $24,984 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $23,528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIOGA UNITED INC — $23,278 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $22,314 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetXIENTE — $20,654 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTalking Tech With Wayne Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetBeyond Literacy — $14,422 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Philadelphia City Fund IncPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Technology Learning Collaborative 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Technology Learning Collaborative?

    Find your warmest path to Technology Learning Collaborative 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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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