· Public charity
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing and building a movement of environmentally engaged communities for a healthy, sustainable and…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $427k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $127,723 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $111,282 |
| ENVIROSCIENCE INC | $69,499 |
| MANTUA CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| GROWING GREAT | $58,320 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $39,815 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $23,728 |
| DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION | $20,000 |
| RESEARCH FOR ACTION | $19,323 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education5× · 2021–2025 · $885k · revenue +17%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE4× · 2018–2022 · $691k · revenue +29%- GGROWINGGREAT4× · 2022–2025 · $269k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYone grant, 2018 · $796k
- NJNEW JERSEY PINELANDS COMMISSIONone grant, 2018 · $450k
- CICARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $381k · revenue +134%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Growinggreat. 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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.
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GROWINGGREAT ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONS INC ↗
- Who funds IUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOR ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds Aspira Community Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Aspira Inc of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC ↗
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Park Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Patagoniaorg · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 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.
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Musconetcong Watershed Association — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.